Willa Cather's uncommon art

Race and art : James Baldwin

Peter Matthiessen, nature boy

The mysteries of John Fowles

The long journey of Doris Lessing

Ford Maddox Ford, man of letters

Baseless dreaming : the novels of Graham Greene

States of grace : William Maxwell

Jean Stafford's triumph

A proliferation of rabbits : John Updike

Donald Barthelme and "la vie quotidienne"

A genius for publicity : Harold Brodkey

A still, small voice : Penelope Fitzgerald

Passage to India : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Under the aspect of eternity : Flannery O'Connor.