- The Gallery of Miniatures
- “Moral Portraiture Disguised as Presentation of Fact”†
Tony Judt - Presentation of a Place: “The Balkans as Strategic Terrain”† John Keegan
- Presentation of Persons: “Franklin Roosevelt as a War Leader”† John Keegan
- Fontenay and the Cistercian School
- “The Rats on the Waterfront” Joseph Mitchell
- “Lotteryville, USA” Kim Phillips
- “The Marburg Virus”† Richard Preston
- “The Plague”† Thucydides
- “The Civil War in Corcyra, 427” Thucydides
- “The Modest Threshold” A. J. Liebling
- “Reflections in a Cul-de-sac”† A. J. Liebling
- “Prime Numbers”† G. H. Hardy
- “The Role of the Bishop”† Jacob Aagaard
- Presentation of Persons: “Perec’s Grandparents”† David Bellos
- Presentation of a Cultural Institution: “OuLiPo”† David Bellos
- Presentation of a Person: “Madame Moreau”† George Perec
- “How Wrong We Were!” Blaise Pascal
- “Les Enfants Gâtés” Francis-Noël Thomas
- “Progress” Francis-Noël Thomas
- “Austerliz”† W. G. Sebald
† includes Headnote