Introduction / Susan Sontag
Short Talks / Anne Carson
Sentimental Journeys / Joan Didion
Standards / E.L. Doctorow
Liberty and Pornography / Ronald Dworkin
Some Overrated Masterpieces / Stanley Elkin
Thinking About Killing : Hamlet and the Paths Among the Passions / Philip Fisher
Audubon's Passion / Adam Gopnik
Canon, Syllabus, List : A Note on the Pedagogic Imaginary / John Guillory
Wind from the Prairie / Elizabeth Hardwick
What's Wrong with Animal Rights / Vicki Hearne
On Seeing England for the First Time / Jamaica Kincaid
Opera and Homosexuality : Seven Arias / Wayne Koestenbaum
The Zipper / Leonard Michaels
Victims, All? / David Rieff
Look Away, Dixie Land / Patricia Storace
First Things First / John Updike
The Mystery of Mickey Mouse / John Updike
Lincoln Up Close / Gore Vidal
