CONTENTS
Introduction
I
A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Balloon Magic
My Louise Bourgeois
Anselm Kiefer: The Truth Is Always Gray
Mapplethorpe/Almodóvar: Points and Counterpoints
Wim Wenders’s Pina: Dancing for Dance
Much Ado About Hairdos
Sontag on Smut: Fifty Years Later
“No Competition”
The Writing Self and the Psychiatric Patient
Inside the Room
II
THE DELUSIONS OF CERTAINTY

III
WHAT ARE WE?
LECTURES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION
Borderlands: First, Second, and Third Person Adventures in Crossing
Disciplines
Becoming Others
Why One Story and Not Another?
I Wept for Four Years and When I Stopped I Was Blind
Suicide and the Drama of Self-Consciousness
Subjunctive Flights: Thinking Through the Embodied Reality of
Imaginary Worlds
Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical
Philosophy Matters in Brain Matters
Kierkegaard’s Pseudonyms and the Truths of Fiction
Author’s Previously Published Essays
About Siri Hustvedt
Notes