Red bank, 1895-1907 -- The Hill school and Princeton, 1908-1916 -- War, 1916-1919 -- Vanity Fair and Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1919-1921 -- The New Republic and Ted Paramore, 1921-1922 -- Mary Blair, 1923-1926 -- Nervous breakdown, 1927-1929 -- Margaret Canby, 1930-1932 -- Marxism and Russia, 1932-1935 -- Mistresses, 1936-1937 -- Mary McCarthy, 1938-1945 -- Wellfleet, 1940-1942 -- At the New Yorker, 1943-1944 -- Postwar Europe and Mamaine Paget, 1945 -- Elena Thornton, 1946-1949 -- Memoirs of Hecate County, 1946-1948 -- Talcottville, 1950-1953 -- The Dead Sea scrolls, 1954-1956 --
Fighting the IRS, 1957-1958
Europe and Wesleyan, 1963-1965
Quarrel with Nabokov, 1965-1966
The Middle East and the MLA, 1967-1969
The dark defile, 1970-1972.