The essays listed below appeared in the following publications, sometimes in slightly different form: “This Is Where We Came In,” “Wheelchair Yoga,” “Absence Makes the Heart,” “Stone Reader,” and “Carlos Saura’s Cria!” in The Threepenny Review; “‘I Wish I Could Say the Same,’” “You Gotta Have Heart,” and “The Piano” in Agni; “Meditations in Time of War” and “Reality Tour” in Witness; “Yes, New York, There Are Baby Pigeons” and “Street Food” in The New York Times; “Alone with the Cat” in The American Scholar and included in the collection Face to Face; “Listening to Anthony Powell” in Salmagundi and included in Face to Face; “Intimacy. Anger” in Narrative. “Ultimate Peek-a-boo” was included in the anthology Eye of My Heart, and “Heinrich Mann’s Man of Straw” in the anthology Rediscoveries.