Young Tolstoy : an apostle of desire
John Updike : Eros and god
Throwing away the clef : Saul Bellow's Ravelstein
Washington Square : so many absent things
Smoke and fire : Sylvia Plath's journals
Kipling : a postcolonial footnote
Delmore Schwartz : the willed abortion of the self
Lionel Trilling and the buried life
Tradition and (or versus) the Jewish writer
Henry James, Tolstoy, and my first novel
Isaac Babel : "Let me finish"
The heretical passions of Gershom Scholem
And god saw literature, that it was good : Robert Alter's version-
An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James.
