"A shit-filled life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's theater
"We are here to be humiliated": Philip Roth's recent fiction
Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust testimonies
Cynthia Ozick: embarrassments
Lionel Trilling and "the deep places of the imagination"
The Trillings : a marriage of true minds?
Lionel Trilling and the politics of style
Philip Rahv : "he never learned to swim"
Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe
The two worlds of cultural criticism
Edmund Wilson and gentile philo-Semitism
Listmania in Humboldt's gift
Assimilation in recent American Jewish autobiographies
Revisiting Morrie: were his last words too good to be true?
The art of the obituary
Why are English departments still fighting the culture wars?
Upon retirement.