Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public SphereHitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by a close engagement with a broad sweep of novelists. |
Contents
The Wilde Side | 3 |
Oscar Wildes Socialism | 10 |
Lord Trouble | 20 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 30 |
Oh Lionel | 51 |
Age of Ideology | 57 |
The Real Thing | 61 |
The Cosmopolitan Man | 68 |
Powells Way | 224 |
Something About the Poems | 244 |
The EggHeads EggerOn | 259 |
Blooms Way | 269 |
Lightness at Midnight | 272 |
Hooked on Ebonics | 289 |
In Defence of Plagiarism | 295 |
Ode to the West Wing | 303 |
AfterTime | 83 |
Ireland | 93 |
Stuck in Neutral | 108 |
A Regular Bull | 116 |
Not Dead Yet | 125 |
Against Sinister Perfectionism | 136 |
Mid Off Not Right On | 142 |
Old Man Kipling | 149 |
Critic of the Booboisie | 160 |
Goodbye to Berlin | 169 |
The Grimmest Tales | 201 |
The Importance of Being Andy | 207 |
How Unpleasant to Meet Mr Eliot | 221 |
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