The wounded animal: J.M. Coetzee and the difficulty of reality in literature and philosophy

The ancient quarrel

Elizabeth Costello's lecture : stories, thought-experiments, and literal-mindedness

Elizabeth Costello's lecture : three philosophers and a number of apes

Food for thought : two symposia

Food for thought : a third symposium

Food for thought : an uninvited guest?

Elizabeth Costello's seminar : two poets and a novelist

Elizabeth Costello's seminar : primatology and animal training, philosophy and literary theory

Realism, modernism and the novel

Costello's realist modernism, and Coetzee's

The body in Africa

Evil as obscenity

Two embodiments of the Kafkaesque

Three postscripts.