(2002) -- State of the Union, 2004. Novelist and critics of the 1940s (1953) -- Tarzan revisitied (1963) -- The top ten best-sellers according to the New York Times as of January 7, 1973 (1973) -- French novels : theories of the new novel (1967) -- American plastic : the matter of fiction (1974) -- Calvino's novels (1974) -- The hacks of Academe (1976) -- Some memories of the Glorious Bird and an earlier self (1980) -- Edmund Wilson : this critic and this gin and these shoes (1980) -- William Dean Howells (1983) -- Dawn Powell : the American writer (1987) -- Montaigne (1992) -- Rabbit's own burrow (1996). pt. 2. Reading the world. Passage to Egypt (1963) -- Pornography (1966) -- The Holy Family (1967) -- Homage to Daniel Shays (1972) -- Pink triangle and yellow star (1981) -- Theodore Roosevelt : an American sissy (1981) -- The second American Revolution (1981) -- The National Security State (1988) -- Monotheism and its discontents (1992) -- Black Tuesday (2002) -- State of the Union, 2004.
Summary:
Presents a compilation of twenty-three literary essays that includes political commentaries, memoirs, criticisms, and literary reviews.
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