Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on the Art of Fiction: “Don’t you know my life story by now? I don’t experience fear.”

Margo Jefferson on the Art of Criticism: “You can be willing to be wrong if you have enough confidence in your brain.”

Prose by Amie Barrodale, A. M. Homes, Marie NDiaye, Domenico Starnone, Miriam Toews, and Zheng Zhi.

Poetry by Abigail Dembo, Nora Fulton, Susan Howe, D. A. Powell, Nasser Rabah, Edward Salem, and Nanna Storr-Hansen.

Art by Em Kettner, Agosto Machado, and Lady Shalamar Montague; cover by Anna Weyant.