Reviews. The painted bird. Everybody's victim / Elie Wiesel ; Poor boy spreads his wings / Anne Halley ; [Review of] The painted bird / Robert Coles Steps. Keys on a ring / Hugh Kenner ; Out of the fires / Stanley Kauffmann ; A moralist's journey into the heart of darkness / Martin Tucker Being there. Jerzy Kosinski : on still being there / William Kennedy ; The fabrication of a culture hero / John W. Aldridge The devil tree. Pulp-fiction style, pop-psychology jargon, and a genuinely sadistic imagination / Robert Alter ; Last brave wish to try everything / Geoffrey Wolff ; New tree, old roots [review of revised and expanded The devil tree / Barbara Tepa Lupack Cockpit. Jerzy Kosinski working out past imperfections / Jonathan Baumbach ; [Review of] Cockpit / Ivan Sanders Blind date. Love and death in New Jersey / Arnost Lustig ; [Review of] Blind date / Daniel J. Cahill Passion play. The aging Kosinski knight, questing on the polo field / Jerome Klinkowitz ; Kosinski's hero rides on / William Kennedy ; When going is the goal / Stefan Kanfer Pinball. Grand Guignol with music / Benjamin DeMott ; Trebles / Stefan Kanfer The hermit of 69th Street. The annotated "Roman à tease" / John Calvin Batchelor ; Kosinski's mask behind the mask / Larry McCaffery
Interview. The psychological novelist as portable man / Gail Sheehy
Essay and articles. Jerzy Kosinski : retreat from violence / Daniel J. Cahill
Jerzy Kosinski : the painted bird and other disguises / Gerald Weales
Horatio Algers of the nightmare / Elizabeth Stone
The romance of terror and Jerzy Kosinski : Cockpit / Jack Hicks
Blind date : the resurgence of relationships / Paul Bruss
Vision and violence in the fiction of Jerzy Kosinski / Paul R. Lilly Jr.
Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski / Jerome Klinkowitz
Chance encounters : bringing Being there to the screen / Barbara Tepa Lupack
The Kosinski conundrum / Stephen Schiff
Kosinski's war / James Park Sloan
Original essays. Cockpit, Blind date, and Passion play : Kosinski's novel cycle / Norman Lavers
Is there any history in it? : the fiction of Jerzy Kosinski / Thomas S. Gladsky
Jerzy Kosinski in fact : a master fabricator's nonfiction / Jerome Klinkowitz.