Introduction / Christopher Hitchens
The murder of Leo Tolstoy / Elif Batuman
The bad lion / Toni Bentley
The dead book / Jane Churchon
Irreconcilable dissonance / Brian Doyle
The elegant eyeball / John Gamel
How Einstein divided America's Jews / Walter Isaacson
Lunching on Olympus / Steven L. Isenberg
Me, myself, and I / Jane Kramer
When writers speak / Arthur Krystal
A rake's progress / Matt Labash
Brooklyn the unknowable / Phillip Lopate
On John Updike / Ian McEwan
My genome, my self / Steven Pinker
Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris
Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith
Rediscovering Central Asia / S. Frederick Starr
Gettysburg regress / John H. Summers
Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman
A fine rage / James Wood.
