Introduction / Kai Erikson -- L'Apres-midi de Mary Garden / Paul Horgan -- Edmund Wilson at Oxford / Isaiah Berlin -- Playing chess with Arthur Koestler / Julian Barnes -- Alva Myrdal / Sissela Bok -- Meeting Matisse / Quentin Bell -- My summer with Sinclair Lewis / John Hersey -- Charles Olson and an American place / Francine Du Plessix Gray -- Alan Jay Lerner : words and music / Maury Yeston -- Mr. Randolph / Bayard Rustin -- Seeking out Christina Stead / Hortense Calisher -- Jean Renoir / Harry Levin -- Three passions of Paul Hindemith / Willie Ruff -- Notes after Austin / Stanley Cavell -- Exemplary Edmund Wilson / Monroe Engel -- Courier for Jacques Lacan / Eileen Simpson -- Remembering Auden / John Hollander -- Maugham / Mary Lee Settle -- Patron, Jean Piaget / Jerome Bruner.