Introduction / by Heidi Julavits
No man's land / by Eula Biss
Gidget on the couch / by Peter Lunenfeld
Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny / by Ed Park
How to be a Christian artist / by Rick Moody
"And suppress the unpleasant things" / by William T. Vollmann
The bad mormon / by Ben Ehrenreich
Why look at fish? / by Ginger Strand
"Sir, permission to go AWOL from the interesting, sir!" / by Tom Bissell
Transmissions from Camp Trans /
In praise of termites / by Franklin Bruno
A brief take on genetic screening / by Richard Powers
The Sinatra doctrine / by Rich Cohen
How far can you press a poet? / by David Orr
Symbolism and cynicism / by Tayari Jones
Let us now kill white elephants / by Howard Hampton
Destroy all monsters / by Paul La Farge
Waiting for the bad thing / by Sam Lipstye
The score / by Stephen Elliott
The American vicarious / by Jonathan Lethem
Transit Byzantium / by Joe Hagan.
