The din in the head : essays / Cynthia Ozick.

On discord and desire
What Helen Keller saw
Young Tolstoy : an apostle of desire
John Updike : Eros and god
Throwing away the clef : Saul Bellow's Ravelstein
Washington Square : so many absent things
Smoke and fire : Sylvia Plath's journals
Kipling : a postcolonial footnote
Delmore Schwartz : the willed abortion of the self
Lionel Trilling and the buried life
Tradition and (or versus) the Jewish writer
Henry James, Tolstoy, and my first novel
Highbrow blues
The din in the head
The rule of the bus
Isaac Babel : "Let me finish"
In research of lost time
The heretical passions of Gershom Scholem
And god saw literature, that it was good : Robert Alter's version-
An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James.