Changing my mind: occasional essays

Their eyes were watching God : what does soulful mean?

E.M. Forster, middle manager

Middlemarch and everybody

Rereading Barthes and Nabokov

F. Kafka, everyman

Two directions for the novel

That crafty feeling

One week in Liberia

Speaking in tongues

Hepburn and Garbo

Notes on Visconti's Bellissima

At the multiplex, 2006

Ten notes on Oscar weekend

Smith family Christmas

Accidental hero

Dead man laughing

Brief interviews with hideous men : the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace.