Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin --

Novel or nothing : Lionel Trilling --

The lastingness of Saul Bellow --

"Please, stories are stories" : Bernard Malamud --

W.H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y --

Transcending the Kafkaesque --

Nobility eclipsed --

Writers, visible and invisible --

Out from Xanadu --

The rhapsodist --

"I write because I hate" : William Gass --

Love and levity at Auschwitz : Martin Amis --

An empty coffin : H. G. Adler.