Family secrets: the absent mother and father

Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war

Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five

Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa

From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird

Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick

A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus

Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice

A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.