Various writers on: Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; Walter Pater's fictional heroes; the mythic world view in Joseph Conrad's Victory; comedy and history in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow; Joyce Cary's Not Honour More; Kafka's Nature Theatre of Oklahoma; Thomas Wolfe, Max Perkins and politics; confused chronology in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; Salinger's Carrousel, etc.