Prologue: Starting out in Chicago. The Fifties and before. Spanish letter
The University as villain
Laughter in the ghetto: on Sholom Aleichem
Dreiser and the triumph of art
Hemingway and the image of man
Man underground: on Ralph Ellison
The 1,001 afternoons of Ben Hecht
The swamp of prosperity: on Philip Roth
The writer and the audience
Distractions of a fiction writer
Deep readers of the world, beware!
A talk with the yellow kid
The Sixties. The sealed treasure
Up from the pushcart: on Abraham Cahan
Where do we go from here? The future of fiction
Recent fiction: a tour of inspection
Barefoot boy: on Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The thinking man's waste land
Skepticism and the depth of life
The Seventies. On America: remarks at the U.S. Cultural Center in Tel Aviv
New York: world-famous impossibility
Machines and storybooks. Literature in the age of technology
American who are also Jews: upon receiving the Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League
The day they signed the treat
The Eighties. In the days of Mr. Roosevelt
Reflections on Alexis doe Tocqueville: a seminar at the University of Chicago
Foreword to 'The revolt of the Masses' by José Ortega y Gasset
The civilized barbarian reader
A Jewish writer in America: a lecture
Chicago: the city that was, the city that is
The Nineties and after. There is simply too much to think about
Writers, intellectuals, politics: mainly reminiscence
Literature: the next chapter
Before I go away: a words and images interview with Norman Manea
"I got a scheme!": with Philip Roth
