Isaiah Berlin William H. Gass Christopher Lasch Adam Phillips Phillip Lopate Steve Fraser Daniel Swift Siri Hustvedt George Scialabba Novelists Russell Banks Joyce Carol Oates J.M. Coetzee Nadine Gordimer Mario Vargas Llosa Darryl Pinckney Steve Stern Mary Gordon Norman Manea Mary Gaitskill Rick Moody Amy Hempel Binnie Kirschenbaum Jim Shepard Howard Norman Poets Robert Lowell Seamus Heaney Adrienne Rich Robert Pinsky Frank Bidart Richard Howard Marie Howe Charles Simic Louise Glück Carolyn Forché Honor Moore Carl Dennis Campbell McGrath Vijay Seshadri Rosanna Warren Notable essays, poetry, and fiction Edward Said's "Beginnings" (1966) Howard Nemerov's "First Snow" (#22 - 23, 1973) Adrienne Rich's "Pieces" and "Incipience" (#22 - 23, 1973) Robert Lowell's "History" and "Man and Woman" (#22 - 23, 1973) Robert Penn Warren's "The Nature of A Mirror" (#22 - 23, 1973) Louise Glück's "Pomegranate" (#22 - 23, 1973) Leslie H. Farber's "Lying on the Couch" (1975) Howard Nemerov's "Ozymandias II" and "Ginkgoes in Fall" (#28, 1975) Robert Lowell's "Epilogue" (#37, 1977) Robert Penn Warren's "Question You Must Learn to Live Past" and "What Was The Thought?" (#50 - 51, 1980–81) Louise Glück's "First Goodbye" (#50 - 51, 1980–81) William H. Gass's "The Death of the Author" (1984) George Steiner's "Our Homeland, the Text" (1985) Seamus Heaney's "Place, Pastness, Poems: A Tryptch" (1986) Martin Jay's "The Descent of de Man" (1988) Christopher Lasch's "Counting by Tens" (1989) Robert Pinsky's "Shiva And Parvati Hiding In The Rain" (#85 - 86, 1990) Seamus Heaney's "Seeing Things" (#88 - 89, 1990–91) Natalia Ginzburg's "My Psychoanalysis" (1991) [Trans. from Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz] Jed Perl's "Abstract Questions" (1992) Sharon Olds's "Parent Visiting Day" and "His Smell" and "The Urn" and "To My Father" (#93, 1992) J.M. Coetzee's "Emerging from Censorship" (1993) Richard Howard's "My Last Hustler" (#100, 1993) James Miller's "Foucault's Politics in Biographical Perspective" (1993) Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Ancestral Voices" (1994) Roger Shattuck's "Second Thoughts on a Wooden Horse" (1995) Tzvetan Todorov's "The Touvier Trial" (1995) [Trans. from French by John Anzalone] Stanley Kauffmann's "What's Left of the Center?" (1996) Carl Dennis's "The God Who Loves You" (#111, 1996) J.M. Coetzee's "Realism" (#114 - 115, 1997) [This was eventually published as a chapter in Coetzee's acclaimed novel, Elizabeth Costello] Michael Ondaatje's "Buried" (#113, 1997) Charles Molesworth's "From Collage to Combine: Rauschenberg and Visual Culture" (1998) David Rieff's "In Rwanda: The Crisis of Humanitarianism" (1998) Joyce Carol Oates's "The Aesthetics of Fear" (1998)