Tributes

James Baldwin's Grand Tour:

Thulani Davis | Freedom Fighter

Carl Hancock Rux | On the Avenue

David Leeming | The White Problem

Hilton Als | Family Secrets

Nikki Giovanni | Making James Baldwin

Russell Banks | To Change the World

Amiri Baraka | Our Man Jimmy

Eleanor Traylor | On Solid Ground

John Edgar Wideman | With Fire and Bare Hands

Chinua Achebe | The Day I Finally Met Baldwin

Flannery O'Connor and the Making of Mysteries:

Maureen Howard | Leaps of Faith

Rick Moody | The Subtleties of Violence

Stanley Crouch | Blues to Be There

Roy Blount Jr. | The Invisible Parade

Mary Gordon | Bad Behavior

Robert Giroux | Wise Blood

Proust Regained:

Roger Shattuck | After the Fall

William C. Carter | Theories of Relativity

Lydia Davis | The Architecture of Thought

Marilynne Robinson | Recognitions

William H. Gass | Toward Total Recall

Nadine Gordimer | Cross-Pollination

Edmund White | The Consolations of Art

André Aciman | Parce que c'Était lui . . .

Fiction

W. G. Sebald | Memory's Defeat

Amy Hempel | The New Lodger

Julio Cortázar | The City Outside Time

Angela Carter | The Kiss

Bernard Cooper | Capiche?

Conversations

Albert Mobilio and Geoffrey O'Brien | Homemaking

Kelefa Sanneh, Coco Fusco, Martin Roberts, and Kwame Anthony Appiah | Portable Cultures, Global Identities

Poetry

Richard Matthews | Tenebrae

Guillaume Appollinaire | Two Poems

Forum

On Translation: A Web Special
Robert Kelly & A Cast of Dozens answer the question, "What great books have never been translated into English?"

Essays

Mary Gordon | Ghosts of Ellis Island

James Baldwin | Stranger in the Village

Laura Bohannon | Shakespeare in the Bush

Heinrich Böll | Skeleton of a Human Habitation

Flannery O'Connor | Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction

Max Beerbohm | Going Out For a Walk

Eva Hoffman | The New Nomads

Memoir

Amitav Ghosh | Walls

Larry Siems | Ken Saro-Wiwa: The High Price of Dissent

Ken Wiwa | Running in the Family

C. K. Williams | After the Wars

Pramoedya Anantatoer | Housekeeping

Lagniappe

Anne Carson | short thingies

Christa Parravani | photographs