pt. 1. Paleface and redskin
Proletarian literature: a political autopsy
The cult of experience in American writing
The death of Ivan Ilyich and Joseph K.
Notes on the decline of naturalism
Attitudes toward Henry James
The heiress of all the ages
Koestler and homeless radicalism
Tolstoy: the green twig and the black trunk
Freud and the literary mind
Religion and the intellectuals
American intellectuals in the postwar situation
Gogol as a modern instance
The myth and the powerhouse
The education of Anton Chekhov
Fiction and the criticism of fiction
Criticism and the imagination of alternatives
Dostoevsky: two short novels
A note on Bernard Malamud
On F.R. Leavis and D.H. Lawrence
pt. 2. Sketches in criticism: A season in heaven
Dr. Williams in his short stories
Twilight of the thirties: passage from an editorial
Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown
T.S. Eliot: the poet as playwright
Hemingway in the early 1950s
Art and the historical imagination
Arthur Miller and the fallacy of profundity
The critic as Littérateur: Leslie Fiedler and John Aldridge
On pornography, Black humor, Norman Mailer, etc.
T.S. Eliot in his posthumous essays
