<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The essays, reviews, memoirs, and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. <I>The Golden Fleece</I>, which takes its title from Spark’s first published essay, has four sections—Art & Poetry; Autobiography & Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics & Philosophy—forming a kind of oblique autobiography, an evolving confession of a powerful individual faith in the human and what transcends it.