Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

Lavinia Greenlaw: The Vast Extent

Kim West: The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary

William Kentridge: Six Drawing Lessons

Anne Carson: The Gender of Sound

Ed Atkins: Flower

Justin Smith-Ruiu: On Drugs

Peter Mendelsund: Weepers

Peter Mendelsund: Exhibitionist

Dana Gioia: Poetry as Enchantment

Lauren Markham: Immemorial

Louis Bury: Exercises in Criticism

Joe Brainard: I Remember

Grace Kessler Overbeke: First Lady of Laughs

Gerald Kahan: George Alexander Stevens and The Lecture on Heads

William W. Appleton: Charles Macklin, An Actor's Life

Steven Watts: Citizen Cowboy

Stéphane Mallarmé: A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

Andrea Long Chu: Authority

Artemus Ward's Lecture

Fred W. Lorch: The Trouble Begins at Eight