Essays, Book Reviews, and Other Nonfiction in Periodicals:
"After Amnesia." Granta 63(Autumn 1998): 187-200.
"American Gothic." New Yorker 8 May 1995: 35-36.
"And God Saw That It Was Good." Southwest Review Spring/Summer 1995: 318-330.
"Art and Ethics? The (F)Utility of Art." Salmagundi 111(Summer 1996): 75-85.
"Art: Therapy and Magic." American Journal 3 July 1973: 17-21.
"'At Least I Have Made a Woman of Her': Images of Women in Yeats, Lawrence, Faulkner." Georgia Review Spring 1983. Reprinted From: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 35-62.
"Beginnings." Michigan Quarterly Review 27(Winter 1988): 1-16.
"Books of Change: Recent Collections of Poems." Southern Review 9(1973): 1014-1028.
"Building Tension in the Short Story." Writer 79(June 1966): 11-12, 44.
"Charles Dodgson's Golden Hours." English Language Notes 20(Dec. 1982): 109-118. Reprinted In The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 82-89; Soaring with the Dodo: Essays on Lewis Carroll's Life and Art. Ed. Edward Guiliano and James R. Kincaid. Charlotteville, VA: U of Virginia P, 1982.
"Cherished Moments." Life Fall 1988: 153.
"Colette's Purgatory." New Republic. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 132-139.
"Coming Home." USAir May 1995: 108.
"A Conversation with Colin Wilson." Ontario Review: A North American Journal of the Arts 4(1976): 7-15.
"A Conversation with Margaret Atwood." Ontario Review: A North American Journal of the Arts 9(1978-1979): 5-18.
"A Conversation with Philip Roth." Ontario Review: A North American Journal of the Arts 1(1974): 9-22.
"A Corner to Write In." Elle Decor Oct. 1991: 132.
"Death of a Salesman." Michigan Quarterly Review 37(Fall 1998): 612-614.
"The Death Throes of Romanticism: The Poems of Sylvia Plath." Southern Review 9(1973): 501-522. Reprinted In: New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature. New York: Vanguard, 1974.
"Delirium and Detachment: The Secret of Being a Writer." New Yorker 26 June 1995/3 July 1995: 134, 136.
"Depth-Sightings." [Rev. of Sight-Readings, by Elizabeth Hardwick.] New York Review of Books 24 Sep. 1998: 4-6.
"Disguised Fiction." PMLA 89(May 1974): 580-581.
"Dodgson's Golden Hours." English Language Notes 20(Dec. 1982): 109-118.
"Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931): The Vampire's Secret." Southwest Review 76(Autumn 1991): 498-510.
"Enchanted Places." Architectural Digest 57(Dec. 2000): 74-80.
"An Endangered Species." New York Review of Books 29 June 2000: 38-41.
"The English and Scottish Traditional Ballads." Southern Review 15(1979): 560-566. Reprinted In: Contraries. New York: Oxford U P, 1981. 116-140.
"Excerpts from a Journal: July 1989." Georgia Review 44(Spring-Summer 1990): 121-134.
"The Fact Is: We Like to Be Drugged." McCalls June 1970: 69.
"Fighting Words." Interview with Randall "Tex" Cobb. Philadelphia June 1995. Reprinted In: Civilization 2(Sep./Oct. 1995): 24.
"Food Mysteries." Antaeus Spring 1992: 25-37.
"Frankenstein's Fallen Angels." Critical Inquiry 10(Mar. 1984): 543-554. Reprinted In: (Woman) Writer. New York: Dutton, 1988. 106-122.
"From 'The Life of the Writer and the Life of the Career': First Principles and 'Transformations of Play.'" New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 27(Spring 1996): 251-257.
"Geza Csath's Garden" The Contours of Surrealism." New Republic. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 140-146.
"The Greatest of Gifts." Life Dec. 1990: 155.
"Haphazzard Thoughts: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime." American Poetry Review Sep.-Oct. 1973: 47-48.
"The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence." MR 13(1972): 639-656.
"How I Write." Writer Oct. 2001: 66.
"'How Poetry Helps People to Live Their Lives': APR's 25th Anniversary Celebration." [With Robert Hass, et al.] American Poetry Review 28(Sep.-Oct. 1999): 21-27.
"I, the Juror." Witness 5,2(1991): 9-20.
"In Olden Times: When Wishing Was Having . . . Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales." Kenyon Review 19(Summer-Fall 1997): 98-110.
"The Interior Castle: The Art of Jean Stafford's Short Fiction." Shenandoah 30(Winter 1979): 61-64. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 123-127.
"Is This the Promised End?": The Tragedy of King Lear." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33( Fall 1974): 19-32. Reprinted In: Contraries. New York: Oxford U P, 1981. 51-81.
"'JCO' and I." Antaeus 73-73(Spring 1994): 44.
"Jekyll/Hyde." Hudson Review 40(Winter 1988): 603-608.
"Jocoserious Joyce." Critical Inquiry Summer 1976. Reprinted In: Contraries. New York: Oxford U P, 1981. 171-187.
"John Updike's American Comedies." Modern Fiction Studies Fall 1975. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 90-105.
"Killer Instinct." [Excerpt from on Boxing.] Sport Magazine July 1987: 57.
"The King of the Weird." [Rev. of H.P. Lovecraft, by S.T. Joshi.] New York Review of Books 31 Oct. 1996: 46, 48-53.
"Lawrence's Gotterdammerung: The Apocalyptic Vision of Women in Love." Critical Inquiry 4( Spring 1978): 559-578. Reprinted In: Contraries. New York: Oxford U P, 1981. 141-170.
"Legendary Jung." New Republic. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 159-164.
"Lightning Bolt." Road and Track Aug. 1989: 58.
"The Madness of Art: Henry James' Middle Years." New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 27(Spring 1996): 259-262. Reprinted In: Brick 56(Spring 1997): 52-53.
"The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights." Critical Inquiry 9( Winter 1983): 435-449. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 63-81.
"The Mysticism of Simone Weil." New Republic. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 147-158.
"The Myth of the Isolated Artist." Psychology Today 6 May 1973: 74-75.
"New Heaven and Earth." Saturday Review 4 Nov. 1972: 51-54. Reprinted in: Arts in Society 10(1973): 36-43.
"Nighthawk: A Memoir of a Lost Time." Yale Review 89(Apr. 2001: 56-72.
"Notes on Failure." Hudson Review 35( Summer 1982): 231-245. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 106-121.
"A Novelist Finds the Bare Bones of a Play." Modern Drama 34(Mar. 1991): 1-4.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde's Parable of the Fall." Critical Inquiry 7( Summer 1980): 419-428. Reprinted In: Contraries. New York: Oxford U P, 1981. 3-16.
"Pleasure, Duty, Redemption Then and Now: Susan Warner's Diana." American Literature 59(Oct. 1987): 422-427.
"Postscript to a Personal View of Nabokov." Critical Essays on Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Phyllis Roth. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984. 108-109.
"Princeton Pastoral." House and Garden June 1990: 74+.
"Recent Books: Keithley, Levine, Sale, and Roth." American Poetry Review May-June 1974: 43-45.
"Reflections on the Grotesque." New York Review of Science Fiction 66(Feb. 1994): 1, 3-4.
"Response to Richard Stern." Critical Inquiry Autumn 1988: 193-195.
Rev. of All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. New York Review of Books 28 Mar. 2002: 43-48.
Rev. of Black Dog of Fate, by Peter Balakian. New Yorker 23 Mar. 1998: 94.
Rev. of The Black Lights, by Thomas Hauser. New York Review of Books 13 Feb. 1992: 3.
Rev. of The Cattle Killing, by John Edgar Wideman. New York Review of Books 27 Mar. 1997: 39.
Rev. of A Certain Justice, by P.D. James. New York Review of Books 5 Feb. 1998: 19.
Rev. of Cherry, by Mary Karr. New York Review of Books 2 Nov. 2000: 30-32.
Rev. of City of God, by E.L. Doctorow. New York Review of Books 9 Mar. 2000: 31-32.
Rev. of Clotel, or The President's Daughter, by William Wells Brown. New York Review of Books 21 June 2001: 65-67.
Rev. of Cold New World, by William Finnegan. New York Review of Books 16 July 1998: 12.
Rev. of Colored People, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. London Review of Books 12 Jan. 1995: 14.
Rev. of The Crime of Sheila McGough, by Janet Malcolm. New York Review of Books 8 Apr. 1999: 14.
Rev. of Death Benefit, by David Heilbroner. New York Review of Books 24 Mar. 1994: 52.
Rev. of Death of a Little Princess, by Carlton Smith. New York Review of Books 24 June 1999: 31.
Rev. of Dressing Up for the Carnival, by Carol Shields. New York Review of Books 29 June 2000: 38-41.
Rev. of East of the Mountains, by David Guterson. New Yorker 17 May 1999: 89.
Rev. of Everything in This Country Must, by Colum McCann. New York Review of Books 29 June 2000: 38-41.
Rev. of A Father's Story, by Lionel Dahmer. New York Review of Books 24 Mar. 1994: 52.
Rev. of In the Cut, by Susanna Moore. New York Review of Books 16 Nov. 1995: 36.
Rev. of In the Gloaming, by Alice Elliott Dark. New York Review of Books 29 June 2000: 38-41.
Rev. of Killing for Company, by Brian Masters. New York Review of Books 24 Mar. 1994: 52.
Rev. of A Mother Gone Bad, by Andrew G. Hodges. New York Review of Books 24 June 1999: 31.
Rev. of Muhammed Ali, by Thomas Hauser. New York Review of Books 13 Feb. 1992: 3.
Rev. of Passing, by Nella Larsen. New York Review of Books 21 June 2001: 65-67.
Rev. of Pastoralia, by George Saunders. New York Review of Books 29 June 2000: 38-41.
Rev. of Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, by Lawrence Schiller. New York Review of Books 24 June 1999: 31.
Rev. of Plainsong, by Kent Haruf. New York Review of Books 21 Oct. 1999: 30.
Rev. of The Portable Jack Kerouac. New Yorker 27 Mar. 1995: 96.
Rev. of Scar Vegas, by Tom Paine. New York Review of Books 29 June 2000: 38-41.
Rev. of Selected Letters, 1940-1956, by Jack Kerouac. New Yorker 27 Mar. 1995: 96.
Rev. of The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. New York Review of Books 15 Nov. 2001: 37-39.
Rev. of Servants of the Map, by Andrea Barrett. New York Review of Books 15 Aug. 2002: 45-47.
Rev. of The Shark Net, by Robert Drewe. New York Review of Books 19 Oct. 2000: 50-51.
Rev. of Sight-Readings, by Elizabeth Hardwick. New York Review of Books 24 Sep. 1998: 4.
Rev. of Stories and Early Novels, by Raymond Chandler. New York Review of Books 21 Dec. 1995: 32.
Rev. A Suspension of Mercy, by Patricia Highsmith. New York Review of Books 15 Nov. 2001: 37-39.
Rev. of The Toughest Indian in the World, by Sherman Alexie. New York Review of Books 20 July 2000: 21.
Rev. of Toward the End of Time, by John Updike. New Yorker 8 Dec. 1997: 116.
Rev. of What It Felt Like, by Henry Allen. New York Review of Books 21 Dec. 2000: 56-58.
Rev. of Who Killed Jon Benet Ramsey?, by Cyril H. Wecht. New York Review of Books 24 June 1999: 31.
Rev. of Zabelle, by Nancy Kricorian. New Yorker 23 Mar. 1998: 94.
"A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma." New Yorker 12 Dec. 1994: 45-46.
"Romance and Anti-Romance: From Bronte's Jane Eyre to Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." Virginia Quarterly Review 61(Winter 1985): 44-58.
"Sacred and Profane in Iris Murdoch." New Republic. Reprinted In: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews. New York: Dutton, 1983. 165-183.
"The Short Story." Southern Humanities Review 5(1971): 213-214.
"Silences by Tillie Olsen." New Republic 28 July 1978.
"Soul at the White Heat: The Romance of Emily Dickinson's Poetry." Critical Inquiry 13(Summer 1987): 806-824.
"Success and the Pseudonymous Writer: Turning over a New Self." New York Times Book Review 6 Dec. 1987: 12+.
"Sunday Drive 1948." Traditional Home Mar. 1995: 34, 36, 38.
"Symposium: Playwriting in America." [Contribution.] Yale/Theater 4, 1(1973): 8-27.
"They All Just Went Away." New Yorker 16 Oct. 1995: 178-187.
"Tragic Rites in Yeat's 'A Full Moon in March.'" Antioch Review 29(1970): 547-560.
"The Tragic Vision of The Possessed." Georgia Review 32( Fall 1978): 868-893. Reprinted In: Contraries. New York: Oxford U P, 1981. 17-50.
"The Uniqueness/Universal in Fiction." Writer 86(Jan. 1973): 9-12.
"The Visionary Art of Flannery O'Connor." Southern Humanities Review 7(1973): 235-246. Reprinted In: New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature. New York: Vanguard, 1974.
"Visions of Detroit." Michigan Quarterly Review 25(1986): 309-310.
"A Visit with Doris Lessing." Southern Review Autumn 1973: 873-882.
"Where Is an Author?" Gettysburg Review 12(Spring 1999): 58-62.
"Wonderlands." Georgia Review 83(Fall 1984): 487-506.
"Writers Draw." Mediums 1982: 18-19.