Nonfiction: Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck honey! -- Montana; or The end of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Archetype and signature -- Afterthoughts on the Rosenbergs -- Roman holiday -- Dante: green thoughts in a green shade -- Negro and Jew -- Saul Bellow -- In the beginning was the word -- The novel and America -- A night with Mr. Teas -- An almost imaginary interview: Hemingway in Ketchum -- Traitor or Laureate: the two trials of the poet -- The death of the old men -- The new mutants -- Henry Roth's neglected masterpiece -- Master of dreams: the Jew in a gentile world -- The higher sentimentality -- Boxing the compass -- Cross the border--Close the gap -- Exhibit A: On being busted at fifty -- Chutzpah and Pudeur -- The passionate pilgrim -- The rebirth of God and the death of man -- In every generation: a meditation on the two holocausts -- Why organ transplants do not succeed -- Who's the cowboy? Who's the Indian? -- The slowest gun in the West -- Introduction to The star Rover -- Poetry: Momotaro, or The peachboy: A Japanese fairly tale -- Child's play -- Call it sleep -- A bloody husband -- My silver nutmeg -- Marguerite -- In vain from love's preakness I fly -- Schlepfer's cocks -- Dumb Dick -- I and My Mishigas -- The deer -- The whiteness of the whale: Bologna, 1952 -- O Al! -- Song from Buffalo -- Fiction: Nude croquet -- The last Jew in America -- Nobody ever died from it -- What used to be called dead
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Presents a collection of author's essays, poems, and short stories