All American. Gods of our fathers: the United States of enlightenment
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
America the Banana Republic
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
Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years
Rebecca West: things worth fighting for
Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton
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
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
So many men's rooms, so little time
Wine drinkers of the world, unite
Charles, Prince of Piffle
Offshore accounts. Afghanistan's dangerous bet
First, silence the whistle-blower
Long live democratic seismology
Benazir Bhutto: daughter of destiny
Algeria: a French quarrel
Edward Said: where the Twain should have met
The swastika and the cedar
Tunisia: at the desert's edge
What happened to the suicide bombers of Jerusalem?
Childhood's end: an African nightmare
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
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
Martin Amis: lightness at midnight
Victor Klemperer: survivor
Just give peace a chance?
W.G. Sebald: requiem for Germany
Words' worth. When the king saved God