Introduction : a brief overview of the recent American novel / Melvin J. Friedman
Baroque Catholicism in southern fiction : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and John Kennedy Toole / Michael Patrick Gillespie
Voices interior and exterior : William Styron's narrative personae / James L.W. West III
Simply not a mandarin : Saul Bellow as Jew and Jewish writer / Ben Siegel
Jewish Jacobites : Henry James's presence in the fiction of Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick / Mark Krupnick
The metamorphosis of the classics : John Barth, Philip Roth, and the European tradition / Clayton Koelb
Origins, language, and the constitution of reality : Norman Mailer's Ancient evenings / James M. Mellard
Toward a new American mainstream : John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut / Jerome Klinkowitz
Writing as witnessing : the many voices of E.L. Doctorow / Susan Brienza
Panoramic, unpredictable, and human : Joyce Carol Oates' recent novels / Linda Wagner-Martin
Women's life-writing and the minority voice : Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Alice Walker / Suzette A. Henke
Desperate hopes, desperate lives : depression and self-realization in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Lucy / James Nagel
Fundamentalist views and feminist dilemmas : Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn's Many things have happened since he died and Break the heart of me / Gloria L. Cronin
Dreams and nightmares : "high-tech paranoia" and the Jamesonian sublime, an approach to Thomas Pynchon's postmodernism / Elaine Safer
Lingering hopes, faltering dreams : Marilynne Robinson and the politics of contemporary American fiction / Thomas Schaub.
