This is a semiannual journal. The theme of the present issue is "Literature as Pleasure." It includes, Joyce Carol Oates, "Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature," Lee Zacharias, "In the Garden of the Word," Richard Ford, "Reading," Guy Davenport, "On Reading," David Long, "On Rereading," James Furdy, "Rereading: Not for Pleasure Alone," Joseph Conrad, "Books," Josef Skvoreckey, "The Pleasures of the Freedom to Read," Stanislaw Baranczak, "The Revenge of a Mortal Hand," Roy Blounr, Jr., "Reading Appreciation," Donald Hall, "The Way to Say Pleasure," Gail Godwin, "What's Really Going on," Jonathan Holden, "Poetry, Baseball: The Pleasures of the Text," Madison Smartt Bell, "Literature and Pleasure: Bridging the Gap," Charles Simic, "Reading Philosophy at Night," James Laughlin, "The Pleasures of Reading the Classics in Translation," A.L. Rowse, "Literature as Pleasure," Mary Kinzie, "Nocturnal Habitat: On Literary Addiction," Calvin Bedient, "Sensible Ecstasies," and William S. Wilson, "loving/reading."

(Key Words: literature, literary journal, Joyce Carol Oates)