1. Four Centuries of Don Quixote
2. The Fictions of Borges
3. Ortega y Gasset and the Revival of a Liberal
4. The Challenge of Nationalism
5. Fiction and Reality in Latin America
6. Isaiah Berlin, a Hero of Our Time
7. Updating Karl Popper
• Acknowledgments

Mario Vargas Llosa’s many novels include The Feast of the Goat, The Storyteller, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and, most recently, The Bad Girl. In 2006 he presented the Richard A. Ellmann lectures at Emory University, entitled “Three Masters,” which were adapted for this volume.