Justice (again) to Edith Wharton
Mrs. Virginia Woolf: a madwoman and her nurse
Diary-keeping
Morgan and Maurice: a fairy tale
Forster as moralist: a reply to Mrs. A.F.
Truman Capote reconsidered
Literary Blacks and Jews
Cultural impersonation: Bech, passing ; Esau as Jacob
The fourth sparrow: the magisterial reach of Gershom Scholem
Toward a new Yiddish
Literature as idol: Harold Bloom
The riddle of the ordinary
Remembering Maurice Samuel
I.B. Singer's Book of creation
The phantasmagoria of Bruno Schulz
Out of the flames: the recovery of Gertrud Kolmar
The biological premises of our sad earth-speck
Innovation and redemption: what literature means
The hole/birth catalogue
Justice to feminism: Previsions of the demise of the dancing dog ; Literature and the politics of sex: a dissent
The lesson of the master
The drugstore in winter.