Every Force Evolves a Form
by Guy Davenport | 
The World Within the Word
by William H. Gass |
The Geography of the Imagination
by Guy Davenport |
The War Against Cliche
by Martin Amis | 
Tests of Time
by William H. Gass | 
Odd Jobs
by John Updike | 
The Fun Stuff
by James Wood | 
Selected Essays
by T. S. Eliot | 
Forewords and Afterwords
by W. H. Auden | 
Hugging the Shore
by John Updike | 
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken
by Daniel Mendelsohn | 
The Broken Estate
by James Wood | 
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
by W. H. Auden |
Homage To Daniel Shays
by Gore Vidal | 
A Temple of Texts
by William H. Gass | 
Vermeer in Bosnia
by Lawrence Weschler | 
Not-Knowing
by Donald Barthelme | 
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
by Marguerite Yourcenar |
At the Same Time
by Susan Sontag | 
Kill All Your Darlings
by Luc Sante |
Ranging over art and architecture, religion, and literature, these essays create an extraordinary collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from one of this country's most brilliant writers. An eclectic stylist who crafts sentences like no one else, Davenport will fascinate "people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things".