"Whittaker Chambers' Journey." Times Saturday Review (London), April 5, 1975, 5, 9.
Essays
The Freud/Jung Letters
"The Freud/Jung Letters." Review of The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974). New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1974, 1, 32-35.
The Uncertain Future of the Humanistic Educational Ideal
"The Uncertain Future of the Humanistic Educational Ideal." American Scholar 44 (Winter 1974-5): 52-67.
Aggression and Utopia
"Aggression and Utopia." Originally published as "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'News from Nowhere.'" Psychoanalytic Quarterly 42 (April 1973): 214-25.
Art, Will, and Necessity
"Art, Will, and Necessity." Lecture at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1973.
Mind in the Modern World
"Mind in the Modern World." The first Thomas Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Spring 1972. Then published in the Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 17, 1972, 1381-1385. Subsequently published as a small book by New York: The Viking Press, 1973.
What is Criticism?
"What is Criticism?" Introduction to Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader, edited and with prefaces by Lionel Trilling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
James Joyce in His Letters
Review of Letters of James Joyce, vol. 2 and 3, edited by Richard Ellman (New York: Viking, 1968). Commentary 45 (February 1968): 54-64.
A Novel of the Thirties
Originally published as "Young in the Thirties." Commentary 41 (May 1966): 43-51.
The Two Environments: Reflections on the Study of English
“The Two Environments: Reflections on the Study of English.” Paper read as The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture at Newnham College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, February 20, 1965. Revised and published in Encounter, July 1965.