Trick: notes toward a theory of plot / Marilyn Abildskov -- Prospects for survival / Noam Chomsky -- Cadence / Paul Crenshaw -- All the home you've got / Edwidge Danticat -- Other Steve Harvey / Steven Harvey -- March on everywhere / Leslie Jamison -- Your friend/my friend, Ted / Beth Uznis Johnson -- Art at the end of the world / Heidi Julavits -- Rain like cotton / Jennifer Kabat -- Land of darkness / Suki Kim -- Eat, memory / David Wong Louie -- Five famous Asian war photographs / Amit Majmudar -- Notes on Lazarus / Rick Moody -- You are the phenomenology / Timothy O'Keefe -- In search of fear / Philippe Petit -- Big thing on his mind / Thomas Powers -- Clothes that don't need you / David Salle -- Maybe the people would be the times / Luc Sante -- Losing streak / Kathryn Schulz -- My father's cellar / John Seabrook -- No direction home: the journey of Frantz Fanon / Adam Shatz -- Lucky you / Sherry Simpson -- Moon, the world, the dream / Clifford Thompson -- Hannah Arendt in New York / Baron Wormser.