Intro
Preface
Silence of the Limens
That Goes without Saying
Life in the Margins
Out of Sight
Ain't We Got Fun?
Honor among Scholars
Flesh and Food
Fish, Flesh, and Foul
Green Freedom for the Cockatoo
Kafka's Plea
Literary Seductions
Ut Coitus Lectio
Books and Ballots
When Literature Was Dangerous
Joyce for Ordinary Blokes
Reading Shilts Reading Camus Reading a Plague
Four Score and Philip Roth
Whither Reading
Arms and the Curriculum
Education for Education's Sake
New and Newer Directions
New and Newer Directions

Is a University without LiteratureLike a Milkshake without an Olive?
Reading's Next Chapter
Kael and Farewell
Esperanto at the Movies
All the Glittering Prizes
The Truth about Bullshit
Second Wind
If Art Is a Lie, Then Tell Me a Tale
Literary Silences
Telling It All
Swan Songs
Notes
Credits