A literary education

Part one: A literary education. A literary education: on being well-versed in literature (2008)

Part two: Memoir. Coming of age in Chicago (1969) ; Memoirs of a fraternity man (1971) ; My 1950s (1993) ; A virtucrat remembers (1988) ; A toddlin' town (2009) ; Old age and other laughs (2012)

Part three: The culture. The kindergarchy: every child a dauphin (2008) ; Prozac, with knife (2000) ; You may be beautiful, but you gonna die some day (2011) ; Whose country 'tis of thee? (2011) ; Stand-up guys (2003) ; You could die laughing: are Jewish jokes a humorous subject? ; Duh, bor-ing (2011) ; Nostalgie de le boeuf (2010) ; The symphony of a lifetime (2010)

Part four: The arts. What to do about the arts (1995) ; Who killed poetry? (1988) ; Culture and capitalism (1993) ; Educated by novels (1989)

Part five: Education. A case of academic freedom (1986) ; The academic zoo: theory, in practice (1991) ; Lower education (2011) ; English as it's taught (2011) ; The death of the liberal arts (2012)

Part six: Language. My fair language (2012) ; Heavy sentences (2011) ; The personal essay: a form of discovery (2012)

Part seven: Magazines. New Leader days: can you have a political magazine without politics? (2006) ; Commentary (2010) ; The New York Review of Books (1993) ; The TLS (2001) ; There at the New Yorker (2011)

Part eight: Intellectuals. Leo Lerman (2007) ; Walter Cronkite (2012) ; Paul Goodman in retrospect (1978) ; Saul Steinberg (2013) ; Hilton Kramer (2012).