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Aciman, André
Spring 2000 |
Reflections of an Uncertain Jew |
Addonizio, Kim
Summer 2007 |
Poem: Lucifer at the Starlite |
Atxaga, Bernardo
Fall 2009 |
The Mystery of the Four Birds |
Barton, Emily
Summer 2011 |
Film: The Jazz Singer |
Bego, Elvis
Winter 2013 |
Miscellany: All the Names |
Bentley, Eric
Spring 2001 |
Books: Oscar Wilde |
Berger, John
Summer 2009 |
Perspective: A Place Weeping |
Berriault, Gina
Fall 1997 |
Fiction: The Figure Skater |
Berry, Wendell
Winter 2012 |
Fiction: Drouth (1944) |
Bidart, Frank
Spring 2008 |
Poem: You Cannot Rest |
Bolaño, Roberto
Fall 2011 |
Table Talk |
Boyers, Robert
Spring 2012 |
Books: Norman Manea |
Brock, Rebecca
Winter 2005 |
You Can't Even Remember What I'm Trying to Forget |
Busch, Frederick
Summer 2005 |
Fiction: Good to Go |
Byatt, A. S.
Spring 1998 |
Books: Penelope Fitzgerald |
Campbell, James
Summer 2001 |
Books: Rimbaud and Verlaine in London |
Carr, Tim
Spring 2010 |
Art: Vincent van Gogh |
Carson, Anne
Fall 2009 |
Poem: Peril |
Chang, Victoria
Summer 2005 |
Poem: The Guests |
Chitwood, Michael
Spring 2005 |
Poem: Walking |
Chubb, Mimi
Winter 2011 |
Books: The Mountain Lion |
Clark, T. J.
Spring 2010 |
Symposium on Bruegel |
Cohen, Andrea
Spring 2013 |
Poem: Explanation (Hiroshima) |
Cohen, Rachel
Summer 2008 |
Art: Poussin and Nature |
Cole, Henri
Summer 2012 |
Poem: Sardines |
Colegate, Isabel
Fall 2004 |
Books: Somerset Maugham |
Connell, Evan
Fall 2007 |
Fiction: The Land Where Lemon Trees Bloom |
Crim, Kathryn
Fall 2010 |
Symposium on Erving Goffman |
Davis, Craig
Summer 2012 |
Fiction: First East Kansas Aphorism |
Deming, Sarah
Fall 2011 |
Miscellany: Skydive |
Di Piero, W. S.
Spring 2011 |
Television: The Wire |
Dickstein, Morris
Summer 2007 |
Books: Henry Roth |
Donovan, Matt
Fall 2012 |
Places: Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii |
Dorfman, Ariel
Fall 2008 |
Fiction: Just Visiting |
Drabble, Margaret
Fall 2001 |
Symposium on Marriage |
Duguid, Paul
Winter 2013 |
Books: Bibliolatry and Its Discontents |
Dyer, Geoff
Spring 2011 |
Memoir: On Being an Only Child |
Eich, Günter
Spring 2010 |
Poem: Fraudulent Map |
Epler, Barbara
Spring 2008 |
Symposium on Editing |
Ferry, David
Summer 2012 |
Poem: Everybody’s Tree |
Ford, Richard
Spring 2013 |
Symposium on Absalom, Absalom! |
Fox, Paula
Winter 2009 |
Table Talk |
Fried, Daisy
Spring 2012 |
Poem: Ippopotamo |
Fried, Michael
Winter 2007 |
Poem: The Fallen Jockey |
Furbank, P. N.
Fall 2012 |
Books: Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel |
Gaitskill, Mary
Winter 2009 |
Fiction: Description |
Galvin, James
Winter 2011 |
Poem: Another Fable |
Gersão, Teolinda
Spring 2004 |
Fiction: The Red Fox Fur Coat |
Gilb, Dagoberto
Fall 1996 |
Northeast Direct |
Gilbreath, Aaron
Summer 2012 |
Music: Jimmy Smith and the Allure of the Vault |
Glück, Louise
Spring 2013 |
Poem: Approach of the Horizon |
Gordimer, Nadine
Spring 2003 |
Books: Joseph Roth |
Gornick, Vivian
Fall 2003 |
Miscellany: Bobby’s Salon |
Gourevitch, Philip
Summer 2010 |
Books: James Salter |
Greenblatt, Stephen
Winter 2007 |
Symposium on Berlin |
Gunn, Thom
Fall 1999 |
Poem: Painting by Vuillard |
Haas, Charlie
Summer 2006 |
Table Talk |
Hamburger, Michael
Spring 2004 |
Poem: A Cat’s Last Summer |
Hawley, Ellen
Summer 2006 |
Miscellany: Language, Loss, and Metaphor |
Hazen, Elizabeth
Summer 2010 |
Poem: Trilobites |
Heaney, Seamus
Spring 2000 |
Poem: The Real Names |
Hirshfield, Jane
Summer 2010 |
Poem: Heat and Desperation |
Hoagland, Tony
Winter 2009 |
Poem: Rabbit |
Holroyd, Michael
Winter 2005 |
Symposium on Memory |
Ignatieff, Michael
Fall 1998 |
Theater: Reconsidering Lear |
Iverson, Ethan
Fall 2011 |
Symposium on Live Music |
Jones, Louis B.
Fall 2012 |
Books: Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel |
Keizer, Bert
Spring 2013 |
Table Talk |
Kennedy, A. L.
Winter 2006 |
Fiction: Family with Young Children |
Kinnell, Galway
Fall 2006 |
Poem: The Dinner Party |
Kitay, Mike
Summer 2005 |
Symposium on Thom Gunn |
Kleinzahler, August
Spring 1996 |
Film: Leaving Las Vegas |
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Fall 1999 |
Poem: Meditations on a File |
Laqueur, Thomas
Winter 2003 |
Symposium on Emil Mayer |
Lasdun, James
Winter 2007 |
Symposium on Berlin |
Lesser, Wendy
Fall 2012 |
Art: Gerhard Richter |
Levine, Philip
Winter 2013 |
Poem: Albion |
Li, Yiyun
Fall 2010 |
Fiction: A Small Sacrifice |
Locke, Richard
Fall 2010 |
Books: Lydia Davis |
Lopate, Phillip
Winter 2009 |
Books: Susan Sontag |
Lubow, Arthur
Winter 2013 |
Photography: Francesca Woodman |
Magris, Claudio
Spring 2013 |
Preface: Reflections on Blindly |
Mamet, David
Summer 2006 |
Perspective: Workers and Managers |
Manguel, Alberto
Winter 2012 |
Miscellany: Bathing in the Fountain of Youth |
Marcus, Greil
Spring 2008 |
Memoir: Tied to History |
Marías, Javier
Spring 2012 |
Film: Westerns |
Marks, Corey
Fall 2010 |
Poem: Dumb Luck |
Mattison, Alice
Spring 2005 |
Fiction: The Odds It Would Be You |
McDonough, Jill
Fall 2012 |
Poem: Ming |
McFee, Michael
Fall 2006 |
Poem: Saltine |
Meyer, Danny
Spring 2005 |
Memoir: Table 38 |
Michaels, Katharine
Spring 2012 |
Symposium on Architecture |
Michaels, Leonard
Fall 2003 |
Memoir: My Yiddish |
Milosz, Czeslaw
Spring 1997 |
Prose-Poems: Borderlines |
Montaigne, Michel de
Summer 2004 |
Monsters |
Morris, Mark
Fall 2009 |
Symposium on the Piano |
Murray, Les
Spring 2003 |
Poem: True Yarn |
Nehamas, Alexander
Winter 2000 |
An Essay on Beauty and Judgment |
Newberry, Todd
Summer 2004 |
Aquariums |
Nunez, Sigrid
Fall 2011 |
Fiction: Airport Story |
Nurkse, D.
Winter 2012 |
Poem: The Power Point |
Olds, Sharon
Spring 2011 |
Poem: Discandied |
Oppenheim, Irene
Spring 1995 |
Table Talk |
Ozick, Cynthia
Winter 2005 |
Fantasy: An (Unfortunate) Interview with Henry James |
Pamuk, Orhan
Fall 2009 |
Table Talk |
Papandreou, Nick
Fall 2012 |
Table Talk |
Parks, Tim
Winter 2001 |
Books: Dino Buzzati |
Peck, Dale
Summer 2010 |
Miscellany: Dutcher's Notch |
Peters, Sara
Summer 2009 |
Poem: Babysitters |
Phillips, Adam
Fall 2010 |
Symposium on Erving Goffman |
Pinsky, Ellen
Fall 2012 |
Symposium on Psychoanalysis |
Pinsky, Robert
Summer 2011 |
Poem: Improvisation on Yiddish |
Plumly, Stanley
Fall 2005 |
Poem: Meeting Mr. Cole |
Powell, Jim
Spring 2012 |
Books: The H.D. Book |
Rathburn, Chelsea
Winter 2013 |
Poem: Meanderings |
Rayfiel, Thomas
Winter 2012 |
Table Talk |
Rebillot, Kathryn B.
Spring 2007 |
Memoir: The Memorial Service |
Romm, Robin
Summer 2003 |
Fiction: Lost and Found |
Row, Jess
Summer 2012 |
Books: Haruki Murakami |
Ryan, Kay
Summer 2012 |
Poem: Monk Style |
Ryan, Michael
Winter 2008 |
Poem: In the Mirror |
Sacks, Oliver
Winter 2005 |
Symposium on Memory |
Sante, Luc
Summer 2004 |
Memoir: French Without Tears |
Savio, Mario
Summer 1995 |
Speech for an Anniversary |
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
Fall 2005 |
Memoir: Wheelchair Yoga |
Seibert, Brian
Fall 2008 |
Dance: Jimmy Slyde |
Seroy, Jeff
Winter 2011 |
Dance: Socratic Questions |
Seshadri, Vijay
Spring 1998 |
Memoir: My Pirate Boyhood |
Shapiro, Alan
Winter 2004 |
Poem: Space Dog |
Shteyngart, Gary
Spring 2004 |
Memoir: The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye |
Sleigh, Tom
Fall 2008 |
Poem: Triumph |
Smith, Imogen Sara
Summer 2010 |
Art: Still-Life Photographs |
Smith, Janna Malamud
Summer 2011 |
Table Talk |
Snyder, Gary
Summer 1994 |
Poem: Covers the Ground |
Sontag, Susan
Summer 1996 |
Preface: Thirty Years Later... |
Spagnuolo, Peter
Winter 2008 |
Poem: Dementia Pugilistica |
Steele, Timothy
Spring 2006 |
Poem: A Muse |
Stevens, Mark
Spring 2010 |
Symposium on Bruegel |
Swope, Sam
Summer 2003 |
Table Talk |
Szymborska, Wislawa
Summer 1997 |
Poem: The End and the Beginning |
Tallent, Elizabeth
Spring 2013 |
Memoir: Little X |
Tate, James
Fall 2004 |
Poem: What Had To Be Done |
Taylor, Tess
Summer 2012 |
Miscellany: The Waste Land App |
Thompson, Clifford
Summer 2011 |
Miscellany: Love for Sale |
Vandenburgh, Jane
Summer 2005 |
Table Talk |
Vidal, Gore
Summer 1995 |
Preface: The City and the Pillar |
Vineberg, Steve
Spring 2002 |
Film: Mulholland Drive |
Wagoner, David
Fall 2011 |
Poem: First Flight |
Warren, Rosanna
Winter 2007 |
Poem: Palaces |
Weiner, Joshua
Fall 2004 |
Poem: The Bed |
Weschler, Lawrence
Winter 2003 |
Popocatepetl: A Noodling Reminiscence |
Williams, Bernard
Spring 2001 |
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline |
Williams, C.K.
Winter 2012 |
Poem: Vile Jelly |
Wiseman, Frederick
Spring 2008 |
Symposium on Editing |
Young, Dean
Winter 2013 |
Poem: Unlikely Materials |
Zagajewski, Adam
Summer 2011 |
Poem: Out Walking with My Father |
Zahrt, Jennifer
Winter 2013 |
Table Talk |
Ziegler, Anna
Summer 2002 |
Poem: After the Opening, 1932 |
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