Reflections on literature and culture / Hannah Arendt ; edited and with an Introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb.

1. Rilke's Duino elegies (with Günther Stern)
2. Review of Hans Weil, The emergence of the German principle of "Bildung"
3. Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th anniversary of his death, June 9, 1932
4. Adam Müller
Renaissance?
5. Berlin salon
6. Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke's revisions
7. Review of Käte Hamburger, Thomas Mann and Romanticism
8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in the world of yesterday
9. The Jew as pariah: a hidden tradition
10. Nightmare and flight
11. Franz Kafka, appreciated anew
12. Great friend of reality: Adalbert Stifter
13. French existentialism
14. No longer and not yet
15. Proof positive
16. The streets of Berlin
17. The too ambitious reporter
18. Beyond personal frustration: the poetry of Bertolt Brecht
19. Introduction to Bernard Lazare, Job's dungheap
20. The achievement of Hermann Broch
21. Between vice and crime (on Proust)
22. The imperialist character (on Kipling)
23. The permanence of the world and the work of art
24. Culture and politics
25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's exhibition catalog
26. The social question (on Melville and Dostoevski)
27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The golden fruits
28. What Is permitted to Jove ...: reflections on the poet Bertolt Brecht and his relation to politics
29. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965
30. Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962
31. Dostoevski's Possessed
32. Emerson address
33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No donkey has lost me while galloping
34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, who died in the night of the twenty-eighth of September, 1973.