Look Homeward, AngelIt is more than a year since Stories in an Almost Classical Mode was published, and the various expressions of dissatisfaction, unease, and enthusiasm Feb 15 90February 15, 1990Article at nybooks.com
Dr. Shaw’s Music LessonsThe progress of the race makes it more and more apparent that the middleclass musical critic is the most ridiculous of human institutions. I do not take Apr 01 82April 01, 1982Article at nybooks.com
The Revenge of the VraiNathan Zuckerman, thrice-married son of a foot doctor, is not just a novelist who likes to quote Flaubert and invoke the powers of Art. No, as Philip Roth intimates in the title of his new novel, Zuckerman Unbound, Nathan has a great mythological pre Jun 25 81June 25, 1981Article at nybooks.com
How Valid Is Psychoanalysis? An ExchangeTo the Editors: Edward Rothstein claims that Freud emerges unscathed from my "Epistemological Liabilities of the Clinical Appraisal of Psychoanalytic Mar 05 81March 05, 1981Article at nybooks.com
The Scar of Sigmund FreudI "Biographical truth," Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig, "is not to be had." The truth of a life, he seemed to imply, would always slip away under the Oct 09 80October 09, 1980Article at nybooks.com
The Dream of Mind and Machine"Well now, would you like to hear of a race-course, that most people fancy they can get to the end of in two or three steps, while it really consists of Dec 06 79December 06, 1979Article at nybooks.com