Five decades worth of the best work of one of America's great men of letters--including excerpts from his full-length books, literary criticism, and political commentary.

ContentsIntroduction by Paul JohnsonA Bibliographical Note by Thomas L. JeffersThe 1950sEditor's NoteThe Adventures of Saul BellowSimone de Beauvoir as NovelistThe Know-Nothing BohemiansHuck Finn's Literary JourneyThe 1960sEditor's NoteMy Negro Problem -- and OursHannah Arendt on EichmannIn Defense of EditingFrom Making It: The Brutal BargainThe 1970sEditor's NoteAfter Modernism, What?From Breaking Ranks: Prologue: A Letter to My SonFrom Breaking Ranks: PostscriptThe 1980sEditor's NoteJ'AccuseFrom Why We Were in Vietnam: Whose Immorality?Kissinger ReconsideredIf Orwell Were Alive TodayAn Open Letter to Milan KunderaThe Terrible Question of Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe 1990sEditor's NoteNeoconservatism: A EulogyIsrael -- with GrandchildrenLolita, My Mother-in-Law, the Marquis de Sade, and Larry FlyntPhilip Roth, Then and NowWhat Happened to Ralph EllisonFrom Ex-Friends: A Foul-Weather Friend to Norman MailerA Dissent on Isaiah BerlinMy New YorkWas Bach Jewish?God and the ScientistsIndex