The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays

The America of John Dos Passos

Hemingway and his critics

T.S. Eliot's politics

The immortality ode

Kipling

Reality in America

Art and neurosis

Manners, morals, and the novel

The Kinsey report

Huckleberry Finn

The Princess Casamassima

Wordsworth and the Rabbis

William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste

The poet as hero: Keats in his letters

George Orwell and the politics of truth

The situation of the American intellectual at the present time

Mansfield Park

Isaac Babel

The morality of inertia

"That smile of Parmenides made me think"

The last lover

A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode

On the teaching of modern literature

The Leavis-Snow controversy

The fate of pleasure

James Joyce in his letters

Mind in the modern world

Art, will, and necessity

Why we read Jane Austen