This issue features new fiction from Sigrid Nunez, Kim Chinquee, Fred Leebron, Maya Sonenberg, and Brandon Hobson-plus "The Book that Made George Saunders a Reader," interviews with Ben Fountain and Michael Kimball, and Madeline Miller's 5-pack of fiction inspired by classics. Plus Cristina Garcia, Tom Piazza, Francine Prose, Patricia Volk, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Wray, Matt Bell, and Alan Cheuse on the book they'd give as a gift.