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Title	Author	Description
Dante: Poet of the Secular World Dante	Erich Auerbach Auerbach	An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas. Contributors: Michael Dirda
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships Company They Kept	Barbara Epstein, Robert B. Silvers silvers	Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Crisis of the Negro Intellectual	Harold W. Cruse Cruse	A landmark work of African-American thought written in a period of immense social ferment. Contributors: Stanley Crouch
There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History There You Are	Thomas Flanagan Flanagan	In these essays and reviews, Flanagan reflects on past and present Irish history, on writers such as Yeats, O'Neill, Brian Moore, and O'Hara, as well as on Fitzgerald, Joyce, Mary McCarthy, Eugene O'Neill, Darcy O'Brien, Hemingway, and the films of John Ford. Contributors: Christopher Cahill
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties Part of Our Time	Murray Kempton Kempton	Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Contributors: David Remnick
Paris and Elsewhere Paris and Elsewhere	Richard Cobb Cobb	Collecting memoirs, portraits of favorite haunts, appreciations of Simenon and Queneau, René Clair and Brassaï, and including the famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," Paris and Elsewhere shows us a France unglimpsed by tourists.
American Humor: A Study of the National Character American Humor	Constance Rourke Rourke	Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character" examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel singer to show how the popular comic imagination contributed to America's changing self-awareness. Contributors: Greil Marcus
Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Hidden Classics Unknown	Edwin Frank Frank	In this original collection, several of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books.
In the Freud Archives In the Freud Archives	Janet Malcolm Malcolm	"In this brilliant and enjoyable book, a major crisis within one of the most important systems of ideas of our century is presented in the style of a movie vehicle for Jack Nicholson."?Anthony Quinton, The Times Literary Supplement
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays Bolt from the Blue	Mary McCarthy McCarthy	"Fierce, provocative, and lovely, a collection of small masterpieces, by one of the twentieth century's most dazzling minds." —Katie Roiphe Contributors: A.O. Scott