Tunneling

Non-Fiction: Books

• A Temple of Texts (2006)
• Tests of Time (2002)
• Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999)
• Finding a Form (1996)
• Habitations of the Word (1984)
• The World Within the Word (1978)
• On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1976)
• Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970)

Reviews & Essays

• "The Master's Voice: Henry James Curriculum Vitae," Harper's, August 2008 [new]
• "Unsteady As She Goes: Malcolm Lowry's Cinema Inferno," Harper's, January 2008
• Essay contribution in The Writer's Brush (2007)
• Essay contribution in Three Essays: Reflections on the American Century (2000)
• "The Moyles & Moyles of It," published in Three Essays: Reflections on the American Century, 2000
• "In Defense of the Book," Harper's, November 1999
• "Shears of the Censor," Harper's, April 1997
• "The Hovering Life," New York Review of Books, 1/11/96
  
• Many links to essays at the New York Review of Books, various dates
• "Being & Dying," New York Review of Books, 10/26/89
• "Johns," New York Review of Books, 2/2/89
  
• "Vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde," Harper's, October 1988
•  "Portrait of the Artist," New York Review of Books, 10/13/88
  
• "On Thinking Through a Little Problem" (1987 National Book Awards talk), Harper's, February 1988
•  "The Polemical Philosopher," New York Review of Books, 2/4/88
  
• "A Failing Grade for the Present Tense," New York Times, 10/11/87
  
• "Goodness Knows Nothing of Art," Harper's, April 1987
  
• "A Visit with Yevtushenko," Harper's, January 1987
• "The Face of the City," Harper's, March 1986
  
• "The Unspeakable State of Soliloquy," (WUSTL Commencement) Harper's, May 1984

• "Three Photos of Colette," New York Review of Books, 4/14/77

Non-Fiction: Misc

• "The Literary Miracle," Iowa Review (adapted from or actual Truman Capote Award speech), Spring 2008 [new]
• "Shelf Life," St. Louis Magazine (adapted from award speech), December 2007
• "The First Novel" (brief entry among many), BookForum, Summer 2006
• "The Inside Man," op-ed, NYT, 5/7/06
• Commencement address, Kalamazoo College, 2005
  
• "Lifetimes Out of Moments," talk given at a PEN tribute to Gertrude Stein, published in PEN America 5
  
• "Toward Total Recall," talk given at a PEN Proust tribute, published in PEN America 2
  
• "Foreword," Conjunctions: 37, Fall 2001
• Commencement address, St. Johns College, 2000
  
• "A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, 1973," ARTFORUM, November 1996
• Reply to a reply to his Musil review, New York Review of Books, 6/20/96
• Commencement address, Kenyon College, 1983
  
• Commencement address, George Washington University, 1982
  
• "Learning to Talk," Commencement address at Washington University, 6/4/79