From the Book - First edition.
The personals column: The literary miracle
Slices of life in a library
The first fourth following 9/11
What freedom of expression means, especially in times like these
Old favorites and fresh enemies: A wreath for the grave of Gertrude Stein
Nietzsche: in illness and in health
Kafka: half a man, half a metaphor
Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno
Henry James's curriculum vitae
An introduction to John Gardner's Nickel mountain
Katherine Anne Porter's fictional self
The Biggs lectures in the classics: Form: Eidos
The aesthetic structure of the sentence.
