Cyril Connolly and the groans of success
William Gaddis and the scion of darkness
Italo Calvino : bringing stories to their senses
The sister melons of J.M. Coetzee
Primo Levi's suicide note
What drives Saul Bellow
Henry James's unborn child
Emerging Dreiser
George Steiner's either/or
O spilling rapture! O happy stoup!
A short note on "Chekhovian"
Crocodiled moats in the kingdom of letters
Portrait of the artist as a bad character
On permission to write
The seam of the snail
Pear tree and polar bear : a word on life and art
Washington Square, 1946
The function of the small press
Of basilisks and barometzes
The apprentice's pillar
The muse, postmodern and homeless
North
The shock of teapots
The question of our speech : the return to aural culture
Sholem Aleichem's revolution
A translator's monologue
S.Y. Agnon and the first religion
Bialik's hint
Ruth
Metaphor and memory.