Jonas Jonasson: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared

Michael DeForge: Ant Colony

Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe

Meghan Daum: The Unspeakable

Julie Schumacher: Dear Committee Members

Adam Kotsko: Awkwardness

I. N. J. Culbard: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

Gene Yang and Sonny Lieu: The Shadow Hero

Arthur Miller: After the Fall

Frederik Peeters: Pachyderme

John Williams: Stoner

Dash Shaw: Doctors

Kristen Renwick Monroe: The Heart of Altruism

Susan Neiman: Why Grow Up?

Peter Mendelsund: What We See When We Read

Blaise Pascal: Pensees

Martin Vaughn-James: The Cage

James Wood: The Fun Stuff

Peter Toohey: Boredom

Erik Erikson: Childhood and Society