Into The Looking-Glass Wood

Publisher:  Vintage, Canada
Year Published:  1998
Pages:  274pp   ISBN:  0-676-97135-0
Library of Congress Number:  PN45.M345   Dewey:  809
Resource Type:  Book

A journey through the possibilities of reading.

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Table of Contents

I. FOREWORD
With Thanks

II. WHO AM I?
A Reader in the Looking-Glass Wood
On Being Jewish
Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest

III. MEMORANDA
Borges in Love
The Death of Che Guevara
Imagination to Power! (Remembering Julio Cortazar)

IV. SEX
The Gates of Paradise
Browsing in the Rag-and-Bone Shop

V. WORDPLAY
The Blind Photographer
Reading White for Black
The Secret Sharer

VI. LOOKING TO SEE
The Muse in the Museum
Dragon Eggs and Phoenix Feathers, or A Defence of Desire

VII. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
In Memoriam
God's Spies
The Age of Revenge

VIII. CERTAIN BOOKS
Taking Chesterton at His Word
The Irresolutions of Cynthia Ozick
Waiting for an Echo: On Reading Richard Outram

IX. GETTING RID OF THE ARTISTS
Jonah and the Whale: A Sermon

X. REMEMBERING THE FUTURE
St. Augustine's Computer