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literary criticism: Beyond the Fields We Know The supernatural literature of Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, and Algernon Blackwood; Living in the Margins In medieval marginalia, you might find complaining monks, a nun breastfeeding a monkey, and sexual wordplay. Oh, and doodles, lots of doodles.; The Late Word Curtis White discusses the connection between bookselling and book culture and what the current shift in the former means for the future of ‘literature.’; Edmund Wilson Regrets c. 1950 / New York City; Tough Crowd 1846 / Copenhagen; Entourage c. 432 BC / Athens; Dickens in Lagos by George Packer; Urban Scrawl by Jamie James; Editors’ Picks: Literary Soccer During this brief lull in the World Cup, LQ selects the best in soccer literature.; Contest: Working Titles Figure out the working titles of famous books and win a free issue of Arts & Letters.; Heroes and Villains Reading the biographies of Jesus, Moses, Judas, and Satan.; The Rough Reader “The Demise of Great Books,” by John Davidson, The Daily Texan, Sept. 23, 2009. The latest chapter in...; In the Midst of Death by John Crowley; The Magic Mountain: Course of Illness by Iain Bamforth; The Vehicle of Language by Billy Collins; Travel Writing: Nowhere Need Be Foreign by Pico Iyer; Archiving the Future Warren Breckman discusses the perils of technology and archiving.; Arts Endowment by Tim Parks; Fortune’s Wheel by Jackson Lears; Walden: Living Deliberately by Bill McKibben