Arguably: Selected Essays (118 page)
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
Marx’s Journalism: The Grub Street Years
Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For
Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton
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
Death from a Salesman: Graham Greene’s Bottled Ontology
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
Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played with Fire
So Many Men’s Rooms, So Little Time
Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite
OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS
First, Silence the Whistle-Blower
Long Live Democratic Seismology
Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny
Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met
What Happened to the Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem?
Childhood’s End: An African Nightmare
Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four
North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves
The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty
The Case for Humanitarian Intervention
LEGACIES OF TOTALITARIANISM
Victor Serge: Pictures from an Inquisition
Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight
W. G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany
WORDS’ WORTH