Hard times and the noble savage: J.P. Donleavy's A singular man / John Rees Moore -- John Cheever and the charms of innocence: the craft of The Wapshot scandal / George Garrett -- The long chronicle of guilt: William Golding's The spire / Walter Sullivan -- Hunting a master image: the poetry of Richard Eberhart / Daniel Hoffman -- That old triangle: a memory of Brendan Behan / Benedict Kiely -- Flannery O'Connor, sin, and grace: Everything that rises must converge / Walter Sullivan -- An embarrassment of riches: Baldwin's Going to meet the man / John Rees Moore -- Not text, but texture: The novels of Vladimir Nabokov / R.H.W. Dillard -- "Mithridates, he died old": black humor and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Robert Scholes -- Ripeness was not all: John Barth's Giles goat-boy / Benedict Kiely -- The greatness and horror of empire: Robert Lowell's Near the ocean / Daniel Hoffman -- The black clock: the poetic achievement of Louis MacNeice / William Jay Smith -- Morris the magician: a look at In orbit / George Garrett -- Toward an existential realism: the novels of Colin Wilson / R.H.W. Dillard -- William Styron and human bondage: The confessions of Nat Turner / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- My silk purse and yours: Making it, starring Norman Podhoretz / George Garrett -- Genius of the shore: the poetry of Howard Nemerov / Julia Randall.