In Grand Street's spring 2004 issue, lies, tricks, and deceit speak louder than truth. Edward P. Jones invokes the grand deceiver, the Devil himself, in his new short story 'The Devil Swims Across the Anacostia River.' Shozo Numa fast-forwards to a dystopian 40th-century nation in his epic postmodern novel Yapoo, the Human Cattle, published here for the first time in English, with animé illustrations. A father and son are taken for a ride by a Mexican bullfighter in Roberto Bolaño's "Last Evenings on Earth." Nobel prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz takes up poetry to recreate the songs of his childhood. Luis Sepúlveda chronicles unfulfilled moments in vignettes from his collection Desencuentros. And those are just the highlights - or so they say. Also in this issue - art by Susan Meiselas; fiction by Portugal's Lidía Jorge, Algeria's Yasmina Khadra, and Hungary's Terézia Mora; poetry by Major Jackson and Charles Simic; and portfolios by Georges Rousse and Nikki S. Lee.