Table of Contents
The whore of Mensa / Woody Allen -- The eighth day / Max Apple -- A wen / Saul Bellow -- Innocence / Harold Brodkey -- Elvis, Axl, and me / Janice Eidus -- Peep show / Nathan Englander -- The courtship from The mind-body problem / Rebecca Goldstein -- En route to the congress of dreams or the zipless fuck from Fear of flying / Erica Jong -- Jews have no business being enamored of Germans from A disturbance in one place / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- From steps / Jerzy Kosinski -- Infinity of angles from The same embrace / Michael Lowenthal -- Still life / Bernard Malamud -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- The pagan rabbi / Cynthia Ozick -- From Three pigs in five days / Francine Prose -- Romancing the Yohrzeit light / Thane Rosenbaum -- From A diving rock on the Hudson / Henry Roth -- From The counterlife / Philip Roth -- P.S. / Helen Schulman -- Worst-case scenarios / Gerald Shapiro -- The problem with Yosi / Enid Shomer -- Taibele and her demon / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino -- The sin of Elijah / Steve Stern -- The quality of being a Ruby / Cheryl Pearl Sucher -- Walnuts, when the husks are green from Tales out of school / Benjamin Taylor -- Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain / S. L. Wisenberg.