Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere"Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite familiarity with a broad sweep of novelists, essayists and poets. In these pages Oscar Wilde's profound radicalism is uncovered; George Orwell's role as a fulcrum between left and right is carefully appraised; the languid irony and cosmopolitanism of Gore Vidal are celebrated; and a discussion of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie prompts a meditation on the West's misunderstood encounter with Islam. Along the way, a refined and knowledgeable palate samples offerings from, amongst others, P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, Saul Bellow, Alan Bloom, Philip Larkin and Patrick O'Brian, and dethrones the overrated, conspicuous among them such figures as Tom Wolfe and Isaiah Berlin."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... story to tell ' . Wright , of course , portrayed his Bigger Thomas as a murderer but also as a man whose predicament was beyond society's comprehension . These two observations are not quite the same . No legal system has time for every ...
... story to tell ' . Wright , of course , portrayed his Bigger Thomas as a murderer but also as a man whose predicament was beyond society's comprehension . These two observations are not quite the same . No legal system has time for every ...
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... story . ' After that I'm afraid Christopher rather gave me up . Gave me up for the Party . ' ) Many years later , reviewing Personal Impressions for the New Statesman , I mentioned the old story of Berlin acting as an academic ...
... story . ' After that I'm afraid Christopher rather gave me up . Gave me up for the Party . ' ) Many years later , reviewing Personal Impressions for the New Statesman , I mentioned the old story of Berlin acting as an academic ...
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... story are established only to be entirely forgotten . For example , in a moment of all - American sentiment or whimsy , McCarry elects at first to show both rivals for the presidency as friends beneath the skin : In Lockwood's mind ...
... story are established only to be entirely forgotten . For example , in a moment of all - American sentiment or whimsy , McCarry elects at first to show both rivals for the presidency as friends beneath the skin : In Lockwood's mind ...
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Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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