Introduction : The academy writes back / Mark Edmundson
Trotsky and the wild orchids / Richard Rorty
My kinsman, T.S. Eliot / Frank Lentricchia
Decades / Nancy K. Miller
Expanding humanism : an interview / Edward Said
In the waiting room : canons, communities, "political correctness" / Judith Frank
The falls of academe / William Kerrigan
Discipline and theory / Michael Bérubé
Authority and originality : an interview / Harold Bloom
Crashing the party : women in the academy now / Susan Fraiman
Queer and now / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Handling "Crisis" : great books, rap music, and the end of western homogeneity / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Thinking like other people / J. Hillis Miller
Pragmatism and the sentence of death / Richard Poirier.
