The woman in white : Emily Dickinson and friends
Cast a cold eye : Jean Stafford
The art of vengeance : Roald Dahl
Revisiting Nabokov's Lolita
Shirley Jackson's witchcraft : We have always lived in the castle
"As you are grooved, so you are grieved" : the art and the craft of Bernard Malamud
"Large and startling figures" : the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Boxing : history, art, culture
Homer & Langley : E.L. Doctorow
In rough country I : Cormac McCarthy
In rough country II : Annie Proulx
Enchanted! Salman Rushdie
Philip Roth's tragic jokes
A photographer's lives : Annie Leibovitz
"The great heap of days" : James Salter's fiction
In the emperor's dream house : Claire Messud
After the apocalypse : Jim Crace
The story of X : Susanna Moore's In the cut
"It doesn't feel personal" : The poetry of Sharon Olds
Too much happiness : the stories of Alice Munro
Nostalgia 1970 : city on fire
The myth of the "American idea" : 2007
"Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?," address upon receiving the 2007 Humanist of the Year Award
In the absence of mentors/monsters : notes on writerly influences
Revisiting Lockport, New York.
