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| Aciman, André Spring 2000 | Reflections of an Uncertain Jew |
| Addonizio, Kim Fall 2023 | Poem: Jazz in 20/20 |
| Alcántara, José A. Winter 2025 | Poem: Mineralogy |
| Atxaga, Bernardo Fall 2009 | Miscellany: The Mystery of the Four Birds |
| Barbarese, J. T. Fall 2019 | Table Talk |
| Barth, John Winter 2017 | Table Talk |
| Baudelaire, Charles Spring 2014 | Poem: Reflection |
| Baxter, Megan Fall 2018 | Miscellany: A Deliberate Thing I Said Once to My Skin |
| Bego, Elvis Winter 2021 | Table Talk |
| Bentley, Eric Spring 2001 | Books: Oscar Wilde |
| Berger, John Summer 2009 | Perspective: A Place Weeping |
| Berriault, Gina Fall 1997 | Fiction: The Figure Skater |
| Berry, Wendell Fall 2017 | Fiction: The Art of Loading Brush |
| Blackwell-Lipkind, X. Summer 2023 | Table Talk |
| Boland, Eavan Fall 2014 | Poem: Nostalgia |
| Bolaño, Roberto Fall 2011 | Table Talk |
| Boyers, Robert Spring 2012 | Books: Norman Manea |
| Brock, Rebecca Winter 2005 | You Can’t Even Remember What I’m Trying to Forget |
| Busch, Frederick Summer 2005 | Fiction: Good to Go |
| Byatt, A. S. Spring 1998 | Books: Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Bynum, Caroline Spring 2016 | Art: Object |
| Calhoun, Kenneth Fall 2024 | Fiction: All Laws in Limbo |
| Calvert, Drew Winter 2025 | Books: Particles of the Genuine |
| Cap, Max King Summer 2020 | Perspective: Saving the Baby |
| Carr, Tim Spring 2010 | Art: Vincent van Gogh |
| Carrasco, Jésus Spring 2019 | Memoir: 10/10/10 |
| Carson, Anne Fall 2009 | Poem: Peril |
| Chitwood, Michael Spring 2005 | Poem: Walking |
| Choukri, Dounia Summer 2019 | Fiction: Can’t You Tell the Difference? |
| Chubb, Mimi Summer 2017 | Books: What Belongs to You; After Disasters |
| Chun, Ye Fall 2016 | Fiction: Milk |
| Clark, T. J. Spring 2024 | Symposium on Anger |
| Cochran, John D. Summer 2021 | Language: Gurp |
| Cohen, Andrea Spring 2024 | Poem: Alcatraz |
| Cohen, Rachel Summer 2008 | Art: Poussin and Nature |
| Cole, Henri Summer 2013 | Poem: City Horse |
| Colegate, Isabel Fall 2004 | Books: Somerset Maugham |
| Connell, Evan Fall 2007 | Fiction: The Land Where Lemon Trees Bloom |
| Craig, Christopher Summer 2022 | Memoir: Taste of Prison |
| Crim, Kathryn Fall 2010 | Symposium on Erving Goffman |
| Cunniff, MJ Summer 2020 | Poem: After Sappho |
| Dabrowska, Krystyna Fall 2017 | Poem: Wooden Figure of a Hunchbacked Dignitary |
| Deming, Sarah Winter 2024 | Miscellany: Street Fights |
| de Waal, Edmund Spring 2016 | Symposium on the Miniature |
| Di Piero, W. S. Fall 2023 | Art: On Carpaccio |
| Dickstein, Morris Summer 2007 | Books: Henry Roth |
| Dillon, Millicent Spring 2019 | Symposium on Deserts |
| Dorfman, Ariel Spring 2023 | Fiction: Safety |
| Drabble, Margaret Winter 2019 | Afterword: Unfinished Portrait |
| Duda, D. L. Summer 2024 | Perspective: Tapeworms |
| Dyer, Geoff Spring 2023 | Symposium on Loss |
| Eich, Günter Spring 2010 | Poem: Fraudulent Map |
| Eisen, Erica X Fall 2020 | Places: Strange Coast |
| Eisenberg, Deborah Fall 2024 | Symposium on Escape |
| Eng, Matthew Spring 2023 | Film: They Feel It All |
| Epler, Barbara Spring 2008 | Symposium on Editing |
| Fenton, James Summer 2013 | Books: The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin |
| Ferry, David Spring 2019 | Poem: I, Who Am Neither |
| Ford, Richard Spring 2024 | Symposium on Anger |
| Fowler, David Fall 2024 | Reflections: The Noblest of Things |
| Fraile, Medardo Winter 2014 | Fiction: Child’s Play |
| Fried, Daisy Spring 2017 | Poem: Bop Bag |
| Fried, Michael Winter 2007 | Poem: The Fallen Jockey |
| Fried, Miriam Winter 2014 | Miscellany: Assimilation |
| Funderburg, Lise Fall 2021 | Table Talk |
| Furbank, P. N. Fall 2012 | Books: Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel |
| Gaitskill, Mary Winter 2009 | Fiction: Description |
| Galvin, James Winter 2011 | Poem: Another Fable |
| Gao, Ge Fall 2019 | Miscellany: A Survey of My Right Arm |
| Gersão, Teolinda Spring 2004 | Fiction: The Red Fox Fur Coat |
| Gilb, Dagoberto Fall 1996 | Northeast Direct |
| Gilbert, Eliza Summer 2023 | Poem: How Hansel Gets Eaten |
| Gilbreath, Aaron Summer 2012 | Music: Jimmy Smith and the Allure of the Vault |
| Glück, Louise Spring 2021 | Poem: Second Wind |
| Goodfellow, Jessica Summer 2017 | Poem: Darwin’s Conjecture |
| Gordimer, Nadine Spring 2003 | Books: Joseph Roth |
| Gornick, Vivian Fall 2003 | Miscellany: Bobby’s Salon |
| Gourevitch, Philip Summer 2010 | Books: James Salter |
| Greenblatt, Stephen Fall 2024 | Symposium on Escape |
| Gunn, Thom Fall 1999 | Poem: Painting by Vuillard |
| Guo, Joy Winter 2023 | Fiction: Come with Me |
| Haas, Charlie Fall 2014 | Music: Henry Cowell at San Quentin |
| Hamburger, Michael Spring 2004 | Poem: A Cat’s Last Summer |
| Hartford, Anna Winter 2017 | Memoir: Odd Jobs |
| Heaney, Seamus Spring 2000 | Poem: The Real Names |
| Heldt, Todd Winter 2017 | Poem: A Concerned American Tries Greek Food… |
| Hill, Harrison Winter 2018 | Places: Light |
| Hillman, Brenda Spring 2019 | Symposium on Deserts |
| Hirshfield, Jane Winter 2023 | Poem: To Be a Person |
| Hoagland, Tony Winter 2009 | Poem: Rabbit |
| Hollander, David Spring 2021 | Table Talk |
| Holroyd, Michael Winter 2005 | Symposium on Memory |
| Hyde, Allegra Spring 2017 | Places: Let the Devil Sing |
| Ignatieff, Michael Fall 1998 | Theater: Reconsidering Lear |
| Iverson, Ethan Spring 2022 | Symposium on Jazz |
| Jay, Ricky Spring 2014 | Symposium on Magic |
| Jin, Meng Fall 2019 | Fiction: In the Event |
| Jones, Louis B. Winter 2024 | Perspective: Power Failure |
| Keizer, Bert Spring 2023 | Symposium on Loss |
| Keller, Jennifer Ruth Fall 2020 | Memoir: The Great Unknowing |
| Kennedy, A. L. Winter 2006 | Fiction: Family with Young Children |
| King, Cindy Summer 2022 | Poem: No Context |
| Kinnell, Galway Fall 2006 | Poem: The Dinner Party |
| Kitay, Mike Winter 2025 | Lives: Gunn Control |
| Kleinzahler, August Spring 1996 | Film: Leaving Las Vegas |
| Klug, Nate Spring 2022 | Books: The Letters of Thom Gunn |
| Komunyakaa, Yusef Fall 1999 | Poem: Meditations on a File |
| Kuznetsova, Maria Summer 2024 | Fiction: Floating Around |
| Lang, Kasra Winter 2023 | Music: On Bach |
| Laqueur, Thomas Winter 2003 | Symposium on Emil Mayer |
| Lasdun, James Fall 2015 | Symposium on Jokes |
| Lee, Whitney Summer 2021 | Medicine: Too Attached |
| Lehmann, Rebecca Summer 2023 | Poem: Elegy with Land Bridge |
| Leitson-Grabelsky, S. Spring 2020 | Symposium on Hands and Feet |
| Lesser, Wendy Winter 2025 | Opera: The Magic Flute |
| Levine, Philip Spring 2015 | Poem: Leaves |
| Li, Sabrina Helen Winter 2020 | Fiction: Daughters’ Bodies |
| Li, Yiyun Fall 2010 | Fiction: A Small Sacrifice |
| Liebenberg, Ibe Fall 2024 | Poem: Doing CPR on Some Dude… |
| Locke, Richard Fall 2010 | Books: Lydia Davis |
| Longenbach, James Winter 2016 | Poem: Book Three |
| Lopate, Phillip Fall 2022 | Books: Partisan Review 1960 |
| Lubow, Arthur Winter 2024 | Photography: The Documentary Style |
| Lucas, Dave Summer 2015 | Poem: “About Suffering—” |
| Machado, Julio Fall 2016 | Poem: Musculature |
| Magris, Claudio Spring 2013 | Preface: Reflections on Blindly |
| Mamet, David Summer 2019 | Remembering Ricky Jay |
| Manguel, Alberto Winter 2012 | Miscellany: Bathing in the Fountain of Youth |
| Manzella, Abby Summer 2023 | Perspective: Glossary of Centralia, Pennsylvania |
| Marcus, Greil Spring 2008 | Memoir: Tied to History |
| Marías, Javier Winter 2023 | Books: The Nabokov Canon |
| Marks, Corey Summer 2016 | Poem: Actaeon’s Hounds |
| Martin, Toni Spring 2024 | Symposium on Anger |
| Mattison, Alice Spring 2018 | Books: Henry Green |
| Mbue, Imbolo Winter 2015 | Fiction: Emke |
| McDonough, Jill Fall 2024 | Symposium on Escape |
| McGrath, Campbell Winter 2024 | Poem: Travel Advisory |
| Merrin, Jeredith Winter 2024 | Poem: Here |
| Meyer, Danny Spring 2005 | Memoir: Table 38 |
| Michaels, Katharine Fall 2019 | Symposium on Desire |
| Michaels, Leonard Fall 2003 | Memoir: My Yiddish |
| Milosz, Czeslaw Spring 1997 | Prose-Poems: Borderlines |
| Moe, Alexandra Winter 2023 | Table Talk |
| Montaigne, Michel de Summer 2004 | Monsters |
| Morín, Tomás Q. Spring 2018 | Table Talk |
| Morris, Mark Fall 2023 | Symposium on the Mysterious |
| Muradyan, Luisa Fall 2024 | Poem: Each Month My Grandmother… |
| Murphy, Sarah Starr Summer 2023 | Miscellany: Brain as Adventurer |
| Murray, Les Spring 2003 | Poem: True Yarn |
| Mutch, Maria Spring 2022 | Symposium on Jazz |
| Nebeolisa, Okwudili Spring 2019 | Poem: My Own Ash |
| Nehamas, Alexander Winter 2000 | An Essay on Beauty and Judgment |
| Nelson, Max Spring 2019 | Books: Janet Malcolm |
| Newberry, Todd Summer 2004 | Aquariums |
| Nichols, Megan Spring 2023 | Poem: Interpreting Dreams |
| Nicolay, Franz Winter 2022 | Music: Burning Up |
| Noonan, Mary Winter 2025 | Poem: Tin Woman |
| Nunez, Sigrid Fall 2011 | Fiction: Airport Story |
| Nurkse, D. Winter 2025 | Poem: Our Dark Garden |
| O’Gieblyn, Meghan Summer 2016 | Places: Dispatch from Flyover Country |
| Olds, Sharon Fall 2023 | Poem: New Love Poem, 2006 |
| Ondaatje, Michael Spring 2024 | Poem: November |
| Oppenheim, Irene Spring 1995 | Table Talk |
| Otsuji, Derek Summer 2018 | Poem: The Ditch Kids of the Maui Sugar Company |
| Ozick, Cynthia Winter 2005 | Fantasy: An (Unfortunate) Interview with Henry James |
| Padmore, Mark Spring 2021 | Symposium on Rhyme and Repetition |
| Pamuk, Orhan Fall 2009 | Table Talk |
| Papandreou, Nick Fall 2012 | Table Talk |
| Parks, Tim Winter 2001 | Books: Dino Buzzati |
| Peterson, Farah Fall 2023 | Books: Alone with Kindred |
| Phillips, Adam Fall 2019 | Symposium on Desire |
| Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Spring 2023 | Poem: All the Young Dudes |
| Pinckney, Darryl Fall 2013 | Lives: The Ethics of Admiration |
| Pinsky, Ellen Fall 2012 | Symposium on Psychoanalysis |
| Pinsky, Robert Fall 2024 | Poem: Conversations with Max |
| Pittman, Caroline Fall 2020 | Poem: Dark Morning |
| Plumly, Stanley Fall 2005 | Poem: Meeting Mr. Cole |
| Powell, Jim Spring 2016 | Poem: The One Who Left |
| Prose, Francine Fall 2014 | Symposium on Libraries |
| Rahner, Madison Spring 2021 | Poem: Sestina for the Matriarch |
| Rayfiel, Thomas Summer 2017 | Symposium on Plato |
| Richter, Will Winter 2024 | Fiction: Proverbs of a Faceless Time |
| Riley, Atsuro Summer 2018 | Poem: Stranger |
| Row, Jess Summer 2012 | Books: Haruki Murakami |
| Russell, Sharman Apt Winter 2016 | Memoir: People Who Live Inside Us |
| Ryan, Kay Winter 2018 | Poem: Trough |
| Ryan, Michael Fall 2014 | Poem: The Examining Room |
| Sacks, Oliver Fall 2014 | Symposium on Libraries |
| Sante, Lucy Summer 2004 | Memoir: French Without Tears |
| Savarese, Ralph J. Summer 2022 | Poem: Juan |
| Savio, Mario Summer 1995 | Speech for an Anniversary |
| Schmidgall, Renate Spring 2022 | Poem: A Mournful Spring |
| Segal, Lore Spring 2024 | Table Talk |
| Seibert, Brian Winter 2018 | Books: White Tears by Hari Kunzru |
| Seroy, Jeff Winter 2011 | Dance: Socratic Questions |
| Seshadri, Vijay Spring 1998 | Memoir: My Pirate Boyhood |
| Shapiro, Alan Summer 2024 | Poem: The Garden of Ediacara |
| Sheffer, Susannah Spring 2020 | Poem: The Motto |
| Shteyngart, Gary Spring 2004 | Memoir: The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye |
| Simic, Charles Winter 2024 | Poem: Five Final Poems |
| Singer, Mark Summer 2019 | Remembering Ricky Jay |
| Sleigh, Tom Summer 2020 | Poem: False Teeth |
| Smith, Imogen Sara Winter 2015 | Photography: Vivian Maier |
| Smith, Janna Malamud Winter 2018 | Books: David Smith by Michael Brenson |
| Smith, Matthew Buckley Summer 2015 | Poem: Hail and Farewell |
| Snyder, Gary Summer 1994 | Poem: Covers the Ground |
| Solomon, Andrew Winter 2016 | Perspective: On Gay Parenting |
| Sontag, Susan Summer 1996 | Preface: Thirty Years Later… |
| Spagnuolo, Peter Winter 2025 | Poem: The Classroom of the Late Romantic |
| Starmack, Sophia Winter 2020 | Books: Tana French |
| Steele, Timothy Spring 2006 | Poem: A Muse |
| Stevens, Mark Spring 2010 | Symposium on Bruegel |
| Stone, Carly Summer 2022 | Perspective: A Fox Disappearing in the Air |
| Stone, Gene Fall 2022 | Symposium on Invisibility |
| Strelchenko, Tetyana Fall 2022 | Perspective: The Corridor Stories |
| Suarez, Dariel Winter 2020 | Perspective: In Orbit |
| Sundar, Sheila Fall 2021 | Perspective: The Death of Tyler Clementi |
| Szymborska, Wislawa Summer 1997 | Poem: The End and the Beginning |
| Tallent, Elizabeth Winter 2021 | Fiction: Poets |
| Tate, James Fall 2004 | Poem: What Had To Be Done |
| Tharsing, Howard Winter 2014 | Perspective: The Visible and the Invisible |
| Thompson, Clifford Spring 2024 | Art: Henry Taylor |
| Toynton, Evelyn Winter 2023 | Perspective: Affording to Live |
| Unger, Tomas Summer 2021 | Photography: Roy DeCarava |
| Vangani, Preeti Spring 2019 | Poem: Admission |
| Vidal, Gore Summer 1995 | Preface: The City and the Pillar |
| Vineberg, Steve Winter 2025 | Theater: Player Kings |
| Volz, Alia Spring 2016 | Memoir: Snakebit |
| Warner, Marina Spring 2014 | Symposium on Magic |
| Warren, Rosanna Summer 2024 | Poem: Papier Mâché |
| Weiner, Joshua Summer 2016 | Table Talk |
| Wenthe, William Spring 2018 | Poem: Wig Lady |
| Weschler, Lawrence Winter 2003 | Popocatepetl: A Noodling Reminiscence |
| Wickware, Potter Summer 2021 | Memoir: Flash |
| Williams, Bernard Spring 2001 | Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline |
| Williams, C. K. Fall 2015 | Poem: Mantis |
| Wineapple, Brenda Spring 2023 | Symposium on Loss |
| Winsor, Mary Summer 2022 | Miscellany: Rules of Flight |
| Wiseman, Frederick Spring 2008 | Symposium on Editing |
| Wolff, Tobias Fall 2021 | Symposium on Childhood |
| Yee, Kenton K. Fall 2023 | Symposium on the Mysterious |
| Young, Dean Summer 2020 | Poem: Long White Feather in the Knife Drawer |
| Zagajewski, Adam Spring 2021 | Poem: The Great Poet Basho Begins His Journey |
| Zipf, Matthew Summer 2024 | Photography: Peter Hujar |
