Helen DeWitt is a novelist. Op. 101, The Last Samurai, was published as a “first novel” in 2000. An excerpt from Your Name Here, a collaboration with Ilya Gridneff, appeared recently in n+1. She is now working on two books begun during a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006‒07. She lives in Berlin.

• March/April 2008: Players: A View Into the Paper Prisons That Cage Actors
  The actual text of an actual contract read aloud by an actual player. In a diner.