Fiction
The Click 62
The End of an Old Song
Looking at Animals 157
The World's Last Englishman 540
The Sunbittern 342
Regulars 68
Blood and Wine 512
Hard Times 46
Frolic and Banter 56
In Another Country 552
A Good Enough Wife 77
Poetry
Life Disconnected (two poems) 85
Life's Asylum (two poems) 172
Dr. Johnson in the Hebrides 329
Three Poems 176
Santa Anna's Spurs 491
Marvels and Miracles (two poems) 327
Drowning in Disorders (three poems) 87
Stories Old and New (four poems) 178
Old Rhythms (two poems) 184
Pageants (two poems) 331
Dublin in July 335
In Reckless Play (three poems) 91
Elegaic Voices (three poems) 509
Wraiths (two poems) 93
Scenes Floating in Memory (two poems) 337
Three Poems 340
The Turning of the Cannon 496
No More Worlds to Conquer (three poems) 501
The Lesson of Sunday Morning 95
Palawan Passage 506
The Night Driver 186
Recovering the Lost 96
Trajectories of War (three poems) 498
A World of Loss (two poems) 188 [End Page 659]
Essays
American Imagination and the Civil War 587
The Uses of Adversity 211
From the Mountain to the Monsters 239
Pretoria in Black and White 358
Song Without Words 190
Journey to Mongolia 376
War's Haunting Beauty 572
The Sea! The Sea! 1
Memory and Imagination in the 251
Getting to Know Michali 403
A Fire in the Sun Parlor 36
The Portuguese Blues 424
The Balloon Man 20
The Geologic Fault 444
The State Of Letters
Lt. Col. Finch and Other Worthies in the New DNB 275
Sewanee's Old Lion: A Eulogy for Robert S. Lancaster 1909–2007 655
Sing Me Frumsceaft: The Artistry of Hope 283
A Continuing Conversation with a Poet 290
Life on the Roof of the World 470
Henry Adams's Tahiti 455
Why I Must Give Up Writing 107
Talking to Myself 115
From Here to Eternity and the American Experience 641
A Reason to Write 110
The Wolf's Lair and Tannenberg: Sixty Years After 632
Frances Partridge's Kite: A Pacifist's War 647
Investigating Angel: V. S. Pritchett as Travel Writer 475
Voyages of the Bounty 462
Eric Newby and the Literature of Travel 479
Tracing Paradise: A Meditation on 264
On Teaching 123
Elegy for a Cold Warrior: Melvin Lasky 1920–2004 649
The Empire of Lionel Trilling 484 [End Page 660]
Arts And Letters
Some Versions of Empson 293
The Imagined South 301
The Elusive Truths of Literary Narrative 131
I Sing of Vernon 626
Mailer's Hitler: Round One 615
The Intellectual Bully of Baltimore 146
The Rise of American Sea Power 620
Field Guides Are Lenses 136
Southern Recollections 311
The Achievement of Matisse 152
Through the Looking Glass and Back with Agatha Christie 141
Poetry from Old Fields 603
Warren at Heaven's Gate 307...