January 28, 1997
Coping With the Idea of Representing One's Race

February 20, 1997
From Salinger, A New Dash of Mystery

March 18, 1997
Bickering with Mom And Making His Boxes

April 14, 1997
Norman Mailer's Perception of Jesus

April 15, 1997
A Postwar Paradise Shattered From Within

April 29, 1997
Pynchon Hits the Road With Mason And Dixon

June 19, 1997
Master of Magic Realism Works in Real Realism

September 16, 1997
Of America as a Splendid Junk Heap

September 30, 1997
On Sex, Death and the Self: An Old Man's Sour Grapes

October 21, 1997
Woe Is Me: Rewards And Perils of Memoirs