Feature:

• Anatomy of a Romance:
  Questioning genre conventions
  in the novels of Nora Roberts 
  Genevieve Gagne-Hawes  read> 

Reviews:

• Confusing, Exhilarating, Moving, and...Underrated:
  Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
  Patrick Gallagher  read>

• True Colors:
  Black Girl/White Girl
  by Joyce Carol Oates 
  Jen Kosakowski  read>

• Chicken With Plums
  A Review of Marjane Satrapi's
  graphic novel
  Jyothi Natarajan  read>

• Klosterphobia?: 
  Chuck Klosterman IV:
  A Decade of Curious People
  and Dangerous Ideas
  Andrew Leahey  read>

• Alice's Scrapbook:
  The View from Castle Rock
  by Alice Munro
  Adrienne So  read>