Each letter portrays the art of everyday life, the small amenities that partake in the making of humanity and history. English translations appear on the facing pages. The Colette letters set the tone for the entire 1999 issue of Confrontation . Love plays the dominant role in the stories and poems that fill the 298-page anthology. Among the contributors are Kenneth Bernard, Aurelie Sheehan, Niles Goldstein, Karen Heuler, Richard Kostelanetz, Curt Leviant, Jane Mayhall, Walter McDonald, Sandy McIntosh, D.H. Melhem, Lee Mhatre, Joan Murray, Lynda Schor, Tom Stacey, Judith Taylor, David Y. Todd, Martin Tucker and Susan Vreeland.
Confrontation is an award-wining literary journal open to submissions from all writers.
Since 1968, Confrontation has been publishing an expansive range of fiction, poetry, plays, essays and criticism. Among its contributors have been seven Nobel laureates and many Pulitzer and other literary prize awardees, including I.B. Singer, Arthur Miller, William Styron, Nadine Gordimer, Cynthia Ozick, Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Theroux and Thomas Fleming.