American originality: essays on poetry

American originality

American narcissism

Ersatz thought

On Buddenbrooks

Story tellers

On realism

The culture of healing

Ten introductions. In the surgical theatre / Dana Levin ; The clerk's tale / Spencer Reece ; The cuckoo / Peter Streckfus ; Crush / Richard Siken ; Green squall / Jay Hopler ; Frail-craft / Jessica Fisher ; The earth in the attic / Fady Joudah ; It is daylight / Arda Collins ; Juvenilia / Ken Chen ; Radial symmetry / Katherine Larson

On revenge

Estrangement

Fear of happiness.