Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Literature with an Expiration Date 1
4. 1 A Literary History of Opinion Journalism 32
5. 2 Anxieties of the Novelist Intellectual 54
6. 3 Persuasive Literary Thought 86
7. 4 Autofiction and the Uses of History 119
8. 5 The New Novel of Ideas 158
9. 6 Literary Populism 193
10. Coda: Journalism’s Sonnet 225
11. Notes 233
12. Acknowledgments 287
13. Index 291