Witness is a literary magazine that, over the course of its twenty years of publication, has earned a reputation as the writer’s literary journal. It publishes, with very little fanfare and lots of word-of-mouth recommendation, the very best writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.This special issue, The Best of Witness, 1987-2004 is now in book form, and contains the best pieces that appeared in the journal from 1987 until 2004 as chosen by editor Peter Stine.