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Title	Author	Description
The Liberal Imagination Liberal Imagination	Lionel Trilling Trilling	The great critic's masterwork makes a case for the necessity of the imaginative works in a society ever more worshipful of the liberal ideals of rationality and progress. "Trilling...shows how criticism, written with grace, style, and a self-questioning cast of mind, can itself become a form of literature, as well as a valuable contribution to how we think about society.—Morris Dickstein Contributors: Louis Menand
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters Voyage That Never Ends	Malcolm Lowry Lowry	A self-portrait of one of the 20th century's most compelling and tragic writers, The Voyage that Never Ends draws on Lowry's stories, several unfinished novels, poems, and letters to present a picture of the whole range his accomplishment to set alongside his masterpiece, Under the Volcano. Contributors: Michael Hofmann
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