Who wants to be a Jewish writer? -- The Book of Psalms -- Seamus Heaney and the question of goodness -- The faith of Christian Wiman -- Kay Ryan: the less deceived -- Extension of the domain of struggle -- The poetry of world and the poetry of Earth -- Night thoughts -- Stefan Zweig at the end of the world -- Non-Jewish Jews: Rosa Luxemburg and Isaac Deutscher -- Angels of liberalism -- Is there such a thing as Jewish literature?