Introduction / Phillip Lopate
The Nation: Democratic Vistas (1945) / James Agee
Humor and Faith (1946) / Reinhold Niebuhr
The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947) / George F. Kennan
Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases (1947) / Edmund Wilson
The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy : should the majority rule? (1947) / Walter Lippmann
The Gangster as Tragic Hero (1948) / Robert Warshow
The Herd of Independent Minds (1948) / Harold Rosenberg
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948) / Robert K. Merton
Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! (1948) / Leslie Fieldler
Stranger in the Village (1953) / James Baldwin
Artists in Uniform (1953) / Mary McCarthy
This Age of Conformity (1954) / Irving Howe
Sootfall and Fallout (1956) / E. B. White
On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956) / Vladimir Nabokov
The University as Villain (1957) / Saul Bellow
The Last Lover (1958) / Lionel Trilling
A Good Appetite (1959) / A. J. Liebling
Making It! (1959) / Seymour Krim
Boston (1959) / Elizabeth Hardwick
Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction (1960) / Flannery O'Connor
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960) / John Updike
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960) / Randall Jarrell
Modernist Painting (1961) / Clement Greenberg
The Obligation to Endure (1962) / Rachel Carson
An Evening With Jackie Kennedy (1962) / Norman Mailer
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Writing About Jews (1963) / Philip Roth
Notes on "Camp" (1964) / Susan Sontag
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) / Richard Hofstadter
The Universal Trap (1964) / Paul Goodman
The Girl of the Year (1964) / Tom Wolfe
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965) / Edwin Denby
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) / N. Scott Momaday
The Twenty-ninth Republican Convention (1969) / Gore Vidal
The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream (1970) / Albert Murray
One Night's Dying (1970) / Loren Eisely
Home Is Two Places (1970) / Edward Hoagland
On the Morning After the Sixties (1970) / Joan Didion.
