Volume 18 (2004) Copyright 2004 Essays: Andrew Cole, Fiona Somerset, and Lawrence Warner, "Forword"; Jill Mann, "The Nature of Need Revisited"; A. V. C. Schmidt, "Ars or Scientia? Reflections on Editing Piers Plowman"; George Shuffelton, "Piers Plowman and the Case of the Missing Book"; Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill, "'The longe man ys seld wys': Proverbial Characterization and Langland's Long Will"; Frank Grady, "Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus"; Noriko Inoue, "A New Theory of Alliterative A-Verses"; Simon Horobin, "The Dialect and Authorship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger." Reviews: Helen Cooper, Maura Nolan, James J. Paxson, Larry Scanlon, Matthew Goldie, Katherine C. Little, Ethan Knapp. Annual Bibliography: Kalpen Trivedi