Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • ‘Most Detestable of All Permitted Things.’
  • Divorce Trauma
  • Breaking Up
  • Review of Familiar Territory
  • Son of Making It
  • A Craftsman Turned Booster
  • The Fuel of Achievement
  • Dirty Little Soporific
  • Review of The Middle of My Tether
  • Is ‘Aristides’ Just?
  • A Regular Joe
  • Not Sammy Davis, Les Dawson
  • More News from Mr. Epstein's Neighborhood
  • The Pleasure of Their Company
  • Payment in Full
  • Problems of Identification
  • Vessels of Consciousness
  • Paid in Full
  • The Metropolitan Spirit
  • Chicago Stories
  • Barbs and Bards
  • Joseph Epstein's Pantheon
  • Review of With My Trousers Rolled
  • The Heat and the Intimacy
  • Review of With My Trousers Rolled
  • First Person Singular
  • Reading Joseph Epstein
  • A Good Man to Have Around
  • Coming Up Smarter
  • Literary Culture and Its Watchdogs
  • Conversations with a Good, Smart Friend
  • Sexy Wits
  • Who's He?
  • Not Our Kind, Dear
  • Feeling Superior: Looking Down Is the Best Revenge
  • The Greatest of These Is Love
  • Ungifted and Unbeautiful
  • Bungling on Side in America
  • Fabulous Small Jews
  • Review of Envy
  • Fabulous Small Jews
  • Joseph Epstein: Combating Gross National Ennui
• Further Reading