Plays, movies, and critics / Jody McAuliffe, editor.

The rapture of the athlete assumed into heaven / Don DeLillo
Reinventing American theater / Robert Brustein
The seagull : art and love, love and art / Richard Gilman
The late beginner : Bernard Shaw becoming a dramatist / Stanley Kauffmann
Fascist discourse and Pirandellian theater / Mary Ann Frese Witt
Shepard's split / David Wyatt
Between L.A. and New York : an interview with Roberta Levitow / Mame Hunt
Cinema and theology / André Bazin
The passion of St. Charles : Martin Scorsese's Mean streets / Jim Hosney, Jacquelyn Wollman, and Jesse Ward Engdahl
The church of the desert : reflections on The sheltering sky / Jody McAuliffe
What the streets mean : an interview with Martin Scorsese / Anthony DeCurtis
An interview with Stanley Kauffmann / Bert Cardullo
Afterword : the critic as humanist / Jonathan Kalb.