This sold-out issue includes the Writers at Work interview with Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Ecstasy of Influence) in which he describes his writing process: “I’m a tortoise, waking each day to plod out my page or two.”

Also in No. 166: An oral history of Gabriel García Márquez. A novella by Michael Chabon, the 2004 Aga Khan Prize winner. Stories by Peter Orner and James Salter. Poems by Norma Jenckes and Natasha Saje.