Eliot Weinberger on Hindoo holiday by J.R. Ackerley
Arthur C. Danto on The unknown masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
John Updike on Seven men by Max Beerbohm
Jonathan Lethem on On the yard by Malcolm Braly
Toni Morrison on The radiance of the king by Camara Laye
Colm Toibin on The go-between by L.P. Hartley
Francine Prose on A high wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Susan Sontag on Letters, summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke
Luc Sante on Classic crimes by William Roughead
James Wood on The Golovlyov family by Shchedrin
Elizabeth Hardwick on The unpossessed by Tess Slesinger
Lydia Davis on The life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
Michael Cunningham on The pilgrim hawk by Glenway Wescott.