Sir Thomas More: a man for one season
Jane Austen's heroic consciousness
The all and the if: God and metaphor in Melville
What Chekhov meant by life
Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions
Virginia Woolf's mysticism
Thomas Mann the master of the not quite
D.H. Lawrence's occultism
T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism
George Steiner's unreal presence
Isis Murdoch's philosophy of fiction
Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory
Against paranoia: the case of Don DeLillo
John Updike's complacent God
The monk of fornication: Philip Roth's nihilism
Toni Morrison's false magic
Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much
W.G. Sebald's uncertainty
The broken estate: the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold.
