A Gathering of Leaves Extravagances and Ephemera

A Brief Introduction

1. Non Compos: Extracts from the Court Record

2. America's Team (or: The New York Yankees Are a Moral Abomination)

3. On Writing English Prose: Ideals, Exemplars, Rules

4. Birthday Greetings for Marcel

5. Goethe's "Orientalism"

6. ​​The Georgia Peach

7. Nabokovian Ruminations: Four Notes

8. The Peach Blossom Spring: A Translation (and apologia)

9. The Saint James Bible

10. Encomium for a Tortoise

11. By Sea-Girls Wreathed

12. Nothing at the Bottom: Four Notes on AI

13. Wings of Light: On Translating Proust

14. La règle du jeu: Five Notes on the Great American Pastime

15. Organism and Paradigm: Six Notes on Mind and Matter

16. Frank: The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole

17. Revenants: Five Notes on Photography and the Deep Past

18. O Divine Monkey!

19. Echoes From the Past: Four Notes Mostly on the Beatles

20. On Yūrei, Jibakurei, and Phone Booths: Four Notes on Ghostly Japan

21. A Tale Told by an Idiot

22. The Ethos of the Ants

23. Mr Toad and the Judge: On the Relative Merits of Kenneth Grahame and Cormac McCarthy

24. Thoughts on The Hindus: Wendy Doniger and the Rise of Indian Nationalism

25. "Dream-Journey to Mount Tian-Mu: A Sigh of Farewell"

26. Noli Episcopari: Four Notes on Political Power

27. Dispatches from the Antipodes

28. The Net of Indra

29. The Cunning of History: Seven Notes on Chance and Fate

30. Scattered Reflections: On Themes Cinematic and Televisual

31. Dispatches from the Flowering Fenlands

32. The State of Exception

33. Slouching Towards DC

34. L'Ébauche d'un homme civilisé: On Paul Valéry

35. Neither Wilt Thou Suffer Thine Holy One to See Corruption

36. On The Feast of Stephen: Six Notes on Boxing Day

37. Gods of the Wayside

38. Leave at Once, or I Shall Set the Dogs on You: Mon Doppelgänger, Moi-Même