Tramping With Virginia
A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of today
An Atheist’s Lament
Is anyone—even a lifelong nonbeliever—ever truly done with religion?
How I Learned to Talk
Conversation once offered entry into other people’s minds. Has that disappeared?
Against Solidarity
As a writer, with a writer’s chronic need for detachment, I have avoided the ideology of gender
Philip Roth’s Patrimony
An elegiac story of change and loss
Confessing and Confiding
Knowing the difference between the two can elevate an essay from therapy to art
At Sixty-Five
After the excesses of youth and terrors of middle age, a writer faces the contingencies of being old
