Arguably : essays /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Twelve,
2011.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Table of Contents:
- All American. Gods of our fathers: the United States of enlightenment
- The private Jefferson
- Jefferson vs. the Muslim pirates
- Benjamin Franklin: free and easy
- John Brown: the man who ended slavery
- Abraham Lincoln: misery's child
- Mark Twain: American radical
- Upton Sinclair: a capitalist primer
- JFK: in sickness and by stealth
- Saul Bellow: the great assimilator
- Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita
- John Updike: No way ; Mr. Geniality
- Vidal Loco
- America the Banana Republic
- An Anglosphere future
- Political animals
- Old enough to die
- In defense of foxhole atheists
- In search of the Washington novel
- Eclectic Affinities. Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity
- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall"
- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet
- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries
- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide
- The dark side of Dickens
- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years
- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for
- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton
- On "Animal Farm"
- Jessica Mitford's poison pen
- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie
- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent
- P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy
- Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity
- John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father
- Graham Greene: I'll be damned
- Death from a salesman: Graham Greene's bottle ontology
- Loving Philip Larkin
- Stephen Spender: a nice bloody fool
- Edward Upward: the captive mind
- C. L. R. James: mid off, not right on
- J. G. Ballard: the catastrophist
- Fraser's Flashman: scoundrel time
- Fleet Street's finest: from Waugh to Frayn
- Saki: where the wild things are
- Harry Potter: the boy who lived
- Amusements, annoyances, and disappointments. Why women aren't funny
- Stieg Larsson: the author who played with fire
- As American as apple pie
- So many men's rooms, so little time
- The new commandments
- In your face
- Wine drinkers of the world, unite
- Charles, Prince of Piffle
- Offshore accounts. Afghanistan's dangerous bet
- First, silence the whistle-blower
- Believe me, it's torture
- Iran's waiting game
- Long live democratic seismology
- Benazir Bhutto: daughter of destiny
- From Abbottabad to worse
- The perils of partition
- Algeria: a French quarrel
- The case of Orientalism
- Edward Said: where the Twain should have met
- The swastika and the cedar
- Holiday in Iraq
- Tunisia: at the desert's edge
- What happened to the suicide bombers of Jerusalem?
- Childhood's end: an African nightmare
- The Vietnam Syndrome
- Once upon a time in Germany
- Worse than "Nineteen Eighty-four"
- North Korea: A nation of racist dwarves
- The eighteenth brumaire of the Castro dynasty
- Hugo Boss
- Is the Euro doomed?
- Overstating Jewish power
- The case for humanitarian intervention
- Legacies of totalitarianism. Victor Serge: pictures from an inquisition
- André Malraux: one man's fate
- Arthur Koestler: the zealot
- Isabel Allende: Chile Redux
- The Persian version
- Martin Amis: lightness at midnight
- Imagining Hitler
- Victor Klemperer: survivor
- A war worth fighting
- Just give peace a chance?
- W. G. Sebald: requiem for Germany
- Words' worth. When the king saved God
- Let them eat pork rinds
- Stand up for Denmark!
- Eschew the taboo
- She's no fundamentalist
- Burned out
- Easter charade
- Don't mince words
- History and mystery
- Words matter
- This was not looting
- The "other" L-word
- The you decade
- Suck it up
- A very, very dirty word
- Prisoner of shelves.