Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin

Novel or nothing : Lionel Trilling

The lastingness of Saul Bellow

"Please, stories are stories" : Bernard Malamud

W.H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y

Transcending the Kafkaesque

Nobility eclipsed

Writers, visible and invisible

Out from Xanadu

The rhapsodist

"I write because I hate" : William Gass

Love and levity at Auschwitz : Martin Amis

An empty coffin : H. G. Adler.