Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index.

Logic of Survival in a Lunatic World / Robert Brustein 3 -- Catch / Nelson Algren 9 -- A New Novel About Old Troubles / John Wain 13 -- Joseph Heller's Catch-22: Only Fools Walk in Darkness / Frederick R. Karl 21 -- Night Journey in Catch-22 / Minna Doskow 29 -- Catch-22 Revisited / Joseph Heller 39 -- Structure of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 / Jan Solomon 55 -- Time Structure in Catch-22 / Douglas Gaukroger 67 -- Catch-22: The Making of a Novel / Richard Lehan, Jerry Patch 81 -- I See Everything Twice! / James L. McDonald 91 -- Theme and Structure in Catch-22 / Thomas Allen Nelson 99 -- Spindrift and the Sea: Structural Patterns and Unifying Elements in Catch-22 / Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. 109 -- A Special Message to Subscribers, Catch-22 / Joseph Heller 123 -- Catch-22 Note Cards / James Nagel 125 -- Preface to Catch-22 / Joseph Heller 137 -- Catch-23: With the New Sequel to His Postwar Classic, Is Joseph Heller Cashing In or Cashing Out? / David Streitfeld 143 -- Gotterdammerung-22 / Christopher Buckley 151 -- From Avignon to Catch-22 / David M. Craig 161 -- A World Worth Laughing At: Catch-22 and the Humor of Black Humor / Daniel Green 183 -- Early Composition History of Catch-22 / James Nagel 195 -- Looking Back at Catch-22 / Norman Podhoretz 223 -- Once More Into the Breach: Joseph Heller Gives Catch-22 a Second Act / Sanford Pinsker 233 -- Joseph Heller's Combat Experiences in Catch-22 / Michael C. Scoggins 245.