Francis Fukuyama and the beginning of history
The last men: Houellebecq, Sebald, McEwan
Under the volcano: Giacomo Leopardi
Up from cynicism: Peter Sloterdijk
The deadly jester: Slavoj Žižek
Beware of pity: Hannah Arendt
The interpreter: Walter Benjamin
Susan Sontag's seriousness
The importance of being earnest: David Foster Wallace
The lesson of the master: Cynthia Ozick
Liberation and liberalism: E. M. Forster
Zadie Smith and the future of the novel
The turbulence of Saul Bellow
Proust between halachah and aggadah
