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Title	Author	Description
Looking Back Looking Back	Baker	In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past.
The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin Legacy of Isaiah Berlin	Mark Lilla, Ronald Dworkin, Robert B. Silvers Silvers	The papers given at the New York Institute for the Humanities conference collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism.
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West Sacagawea's Nickname	Larry McMurtry McMurtry	Once again Larry McMurtry casts a keen and elegaic eye not only on the often harsh truths of the West, but also on the power of western illusions.
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature Seduction and Betrayal	Elizabeth Hardwick Hardwick	Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. Contributors: Joan Didion
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account Reading and Writing	V.S. Naipaul Naipaul	In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer.
The Anatomy of Melancholy Anatomy of Melancholy	Robert Burton Burton	One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Contributors: William H. Gass
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Lore and Language of Schoolchildren	Iona and Peter Opie Opie	The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Contributors: Marina Warner