Essays originally published in two books under the titles: The new world and The brother in Elysium.
Contents
Algebra among cats -- At Tikal -- The occupation of space -- Palenque -- Copan : historicity gone -- For Shirley Clarke -- Unwillingness, the unwilled -- Costume as metaphor -- Desire and denial -- Silence and Henry Thoreau -- Friendship -- Freedom -- Social action -- Walt Whitman's marine democracy -- Fusion -- Identity -- Herman Melville, or, The ambiguities -- The social problem -- Problems of confidence and evil.
