Table of Contents: “…Recognition -- The struggle for recognition -- A sociology of titles -- Public honor and the individual desert -- Stalin's Stakhanovites -- The Nobel Prize in literature -- Roman and other triumphs -- Punishment -- Ostracism in Athens -- Preventive detention -- Self-esteem and self-respect -- 12. …”

Table of Contents: “…Sam Fathers ; The hill country ; Uncle Ike ; The blood ritual of Isaac McCaslin ; Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature ; Address upon receiving the National Book Award for Fiction ; The meaning of the hunt ; Faulkner's commentary on Go down, Moses / Frederick L. …”

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Table of Contents: “…-- Cormac McCarthy's The road: doing apocalypse the Southern way -- Why Salman Rushdie so richly deserves the Nobel Prize in literature -- Symposium response: is American literature too insular? …”

Table of Contents: “…Nobel Peace Prize: Empty Chair -- The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 -- A Good Choice of Nobel Prize for Xiaobo -- The Spirit of Liu Xiaobo's "No Enemies" Will Exist Forever in Japan -- China Will Face Dilemma and Inconsistency between the Nobel Prizes for Literature and Peace: One Thought after the Death of Liu Xiaobo -- Being-toward-Death: Torch in the Darkness -- Xiaobo and His Era -- A Life like a Symphonic Poem: Farewell to Liu Xiaobo -- Liu Xiaobo Had a Dream -- Ascending the Altar: Mourning Liu Xiaobo -- Two or Three Things about Liu Xiaobo -- Liu Xiaobo's Death and Chinese Regime's Fear…”
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Table of Contents: “…A roadtrip through looney U.S. laws -- More than you ever wanted to know about lawyers -- Barbie goes to court -- How one woman survived the most rigorous law school admission process in history and still managed to feed the kids and clean the house -- Reality TV in the courtroom -- Biggest beyond-the-grave control freaks -- Five things you (probably) didn't know about Clarence Darrow -- Famous prisoner's last meals -- Five reasons why John Donne was meant to be a poet, not a lawyer -- Memorable cases of false advertising -- Typhoid Mary goes to court -- Lawyers who've won Nobel prizes for literature -- A lexicon of ne'er-do-wells -- Behind-the-scenes players in the U.S. law biz -- Lawyers who've won Darwin awards -- Longest jury deliberations -- Finding M&Ms in court, in contracts, and in compromising legal situations -- The judge who hated red nail polish -- World's longest prison sentences -- Literary lawyers quiz -- Must-visit travel destinations for law buffs -- Nellie Mitchell, age 96, takes on a tabloid -- Times may, in fact, have changed: old court opinions -- Consider yourself warned! …”

Table of Contents: “…Newspaper Literary Supplements and the Nobel Prize in Literature: A Personal Reflection -- 23. On Bai -- 24. …”
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