1. Reading with the Grain: A New World in Literary Criticism–Timothy Bewes
2. Can Anything Be Rescued by Defending It? Benjamin with Adorno–Gerhard Richter
3. Bells and Spells: Gothic Repetition and Romantic Redundancy–Susan Bernstein
4. Rot's Progress: Gastronomy according to Peter Greenaway–Eugenie Brinkema
5. "The Necessity of Reading and Being Read": Barbara Johnson and the Literary Politics of Narcissism–Samuel Solomon
6. Live Free or Describe: The Reading Effect and the Persistence of Form–Ellen Rooney