Introduction : Styron's choices / Rhoda Sirlin -- Foreword : the message of Auschwitz / William Styron -- Evil and William Styron / Pearl K. Bell -- Night thoughts of a media watcher / Gloria Steinem -- William Styron : a conversation / James Ellison -- William Styron : an interview / Judith Thurman -- William Styron's Sophie's choice : the structure of oppression / Carolyn A. Durham -- The politics of gender : William Styron's Sophie's choice / Barbara T. Lupack -- Women in Nazi Germany : paradoxes -- Sexual politics and confessional testimony in Sophie's choice / Lisa Carstens -- A liberal's Auschwitz / Cynthia Ozick -- The South encounters the Holocaust : William Styron's Sophie's choice / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Bellow, Malamud, Roth-- and Styron? / Irving S. Saposnik -- God's averted face : Styron's Sophie's choice / John Lang -- Wiliam Styron's Sophie's choice : Poland, the South, and the tragedy of suicide / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Does the Holocaust lie beyond the reach of art? / Elie Wiesel -- Auschwitz and the literary imagination : William Styron's Sophie's choice / Franz LInk -- Beyond words and silence : classical music in William Styron's Sophie's choice / Lucy Morrison -- Afterword : the enduring metaphors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima / William Styron
