King Lear's daughter / Maurice Baring
The Somme still flows / Edmund Blunden
How it strikes a contemporary / Virginia Woolf
Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot
Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence
Literary booms / Desmond McCarthy
Sermons in cats / Aldous Huxley
About bathrooms / A.P. Herbert
The sad story of Dr Colbatch / Lytton Strachey
Reflections on journalism / H.L. Mencken
The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret life of James Thurber / James Thurber
The head of a leader / Christopher Isherwood
England your England / George Orwell
The guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden
My confession / Mary McCarthy
Mass civilization and minority culture / F.R. Leavis
The little store / Eudora Welty
The lost childhood / Graham Greene
Philoctetes: the wound and the bow / Edmund Wilson
The concentration camps / Hannah Arendt.
An American in London / Cyril Connolly
The obscurity of the poet / Randall Jarrell
In the middle of the journey / V.S. Naipaul
The ring of time / E.B. White
Time of arrival / Dan Jacobson
The English aristocracy / Nancy Mitford
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
The white Negro / Norman Mailer
Return trip to nirvana / Arthur Koestler
The holy family / Gore Vidal
The Oswald family / Elizabeth Hardwick
These radical chic evenings / Tom Wolfe
My baseball years / Philip Roth
The pleasure principle / Philip Larkin
Why are you telling me all this? / Kingsley Amis
Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion
The bankrupt man / John Updike
Living on capital / Jonathan Raban
Are you distraining me? / Karl Miller
Down with dons / John Carey
Phantom of the opera: the Republicans in 1988 / Martin Amis
On not knowing the half of it: my Jewish self / Christopher Hitchens
Mrs Thatcher remembers / Julian Barnes.
