Includes index.

Part One: Essays -- The Bookish Life (2018) -- Body without Soul (2020) -- Chicago, Then and Now (2018) -- Jewish Jokes (2018) -- Short Attention Span (2017) -- Intellectual Marines in Little Magazines (2008) -- The American Language (2018) -- University of Chicago Days (2017) -- Frittering Prizes (1997) -- The Tzaddick of the Intellectuals (2017) -- The Menace of Political Correctness (2019) -- Hail, Mommsen (2018) -- Big Julie (2019) -- Our Gladiators (2018) -- Diamonds are Forever (2016) -- What's the Story? (2017) -- University Presidents (2019) -- Immaturity on Campus (2020) -- Heinrich Heine (2018) -- Joseph Roth (2018) -- Stefan Zweig (2019) -- Vasily Grossman (2011) -- Evelyn Waugh (2017) -- P. G. Wodehouse (2018) -- Tom Wolfe (2018) -- Susan Sontag, Savant-Idiot (2019) -- Lionel Trilling (2019) -- Proust's Duchesses (2018) -- Denis Diderot (2019) -- Isaiah Berlin (2016) -- Johnson-Boswell (2019) -- Stop Your Blubbering (2019) -- George Gershwin (2009) -- Nelson Algren (2019) -- Essayism (2018) -- Alcibaides (2019) -- Big Bill Tilden (2016) -- The Semicolon (2019) -- The Meritocracy (2019) -- Part Two: Bits and Pieces -- Close Shaves (2018) -- Location, Location, Location (2018) -- Milt Rosenberg (2018) -- Only a Hobby (2018) -- Hello, Dolly (2018) -- Dirty Words (2018) -- See Me Out (2018) -- Shabby Chic (2017) -- Thoughts and Prayers (2018) -- Table It (2018) -- Don't Hide Your Eyes, Weaponize (2019) -- Does Not Hug (2017) -- In Bad Taste or Not, I'll Keep My Comic Sans (2019) -- Yidiosyncrasies (2018) -- Sinfood (2017) -- A Nobel Prize for Marriage (2018) -- Part Three: Edward Redux -- Edward Remembered (2019).

"Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits contains 58 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read"--