The sounder few: essays from the Hollins critic

Hard times and the noble savage: J.P. Donleavy's A singular man / John Rees Moore --

John Cheever and the charms of innocence: the craft of The Wapshot scandal / George Garrett --

The long chronicle of guilt: William Golding's The spire / Walter Sullivan --

Hunting a master image: the poetry of Richard Eberhart / Daniel Hoffman --

That old triangle: a memory of Brendan Behan / Benedict Kiely --

Flannery O'Connor, sin, and grace: Everything that rises must converge / Walter Sullivan --

An embarrassment of riches: Baldwin's Going to meet the man / John Rees Moore --

Not text, but texture: The novels of Vladimir Nabokov / R.H.W. Dillard --

"Mithridates, he died old": black humor and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Robert Scholes --

Ripeness was not all: John Barth's Giles goat-boy / Benedict Kiely --

The greatness and horror of empire: Robert Lowell's Near the ocean / Daniel Hoffman --

The black clock: the poetic achievement of Louis MacNeice / William Jay Smith --

Morris the magician: a look at In orbit / George Garrett --

Toward an existential realism: the novels of Colin Wilson / R.H.W. Dillard --

William Styron and human bondage: The confessions of Nat Turner / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. --

My silk purse and yours: Making it, starring Norman Podhoretz / George Garrett --

Genius of the shore: the poetry of Howard Nemerov / Julia Randall.