Page |
Length |
Title |
Publication |
Pub Date |
640 |
11 |
Imagining Hitler |
Vanity Fair |
Feb 99 |
117 |
6 |
Old Enough to Die |
Vanity Fair |
June 99 |
276 |
13 |
Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity |
Atlantic |
June 01 |
347 |
5 |
C. L. R. James: Mid Off, Not Right On |
Times Literary Supplement |
Jan 18, 2002 |
47 |
6 |
Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer |
Atlantic |
July/Aug 02 |
625 |
14 |
Martin Amis: Lightness At Midnight |
Atlantic |
Sep 02 |
108 |
8 |
Political Animals |
Atlantic |
Nov 02 |
585 |
9 |
Victor Serge: Pictures From An Inquisition |
Atlantic |
Dec 02 |
673 |
10 |
W. G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany |
Atlantic |
Jan/Feb 2003 |
480 |
12 |
The Perils of Partition |
Atlantic |
Mar 03 |
250 |
14 |
Evelyn Waugh: The Permanent Adolescent |
Atlantic |
May 03 |
228 |
8 |
On "Animal Farm" [Introduction to Animal Farm and
1984] |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
June 1, 2003 |
54 |
7 |
JFK: In Sickness and By Stealth |
Times Literary Supplement |
Aug 22, 2003 |
504 |
8 |
Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met |
Atlantic |
Sep 03 |
40 |
6 |
Mark Twain: American Radical |
Atlantic |
Nov 03 |
290 |
6 |
John Buchan: Spy ThrillerÕs Father |
Atlantic |
Mar 04 |
152 |
12 |
Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet |
Atlantic |
April 04 |
242 |
7 |
W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie |
Atlantic |
May 04 |
745 |
2 |
A Very, Very Dirty Word |
Slate |
July 6, 2004 |
265 |
10 |
P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy |
Atlantic |
Nov 04 |
435 |
9 |
AfghanistanÕs Dangerous Bet |
Vanity Fair |
Nov 04 |
652 |
8 |
Victor Klemperer: Survivor |
Atlantic |
Dec 04 |
332 |
7 |
Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool |
Atlantic |
Jan/Feb 2005 |
8 |
3 |
The Private Jefferson |
Wilson Quarterly |
Spring 2005 |
297 |
10 |
Graham Greene: IÕll Be Damned |
Atlantic |
Mar 05 |
716 |
2 |
Burned Out |
Slate |
Mar 7, 2005 |
733 |
2 |
This Was Not Looting |
Slate |
Mar 15, 2005 |
719 |
2 |
Easter Charade |
Slate |
Mar 28, 2005 |
595 |
6 |
André Malraux: One ManÕs Fate |
NYT Book Review |
April 10, 2005 |
607 |
9 |
Isabel Allende: Chile Redux
[Introduction to House of the Spirits] |
Everyman's Library |
Apr 19, 2005 |
28 |
5 |
John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery |
Atlantic |
May 05 |
553 |
2 |
Worse Than "Nineteen Eighty-Four" |
Slate |
May 2, 2005 |
726 |
3 |
History and Mystery |
Slate |
May 16, 2005 |
455 |
11 |
IranÕs Waiting Game |
Vanity Fair |
July 05 |
21 |
6 |
Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy |
Atlantic |
Nov 05 |
70 |
7 |
Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita |
Atlantic |
Dec 05 |
697 |
6 |
Let Them Eat Pork Rinds |
Vanity Fair |
Dec 05 |
365 |
9 |
Fleet StreetÕs Finest: From Waugh to Frayn |
Guardian (London) |
Dec 3, 2005 |
535 |
5 |
ChildhoodÕs End: An African Nightmare |
Vanity Fair |
Jan 06 |
171 |
3 |
Gustave Flaubert: IÕm With
Stupide |
NYT Book Review |
Jan 22, 2006 |
704 |
4 |
Stand Up for Denmark! |
Slate |
Feb 21, 2006 |
358 |
6 |
FraserÕs Flashman: Scoundrel Time |
Vanity Fair |
Mar 06 |
569 |
3 |
Overstating Jewish Power |
Slate |
Mar 27, 2006 |
78 |
6 |
John Updike: No Way |
Atlantic |
June 06 |
403 |
7 |
As American As Apple Pie |
Vanity Fair |
Jul 06 |
617 |
7 |
The Persian Version |
Atlantic |
July/Aug 2006 |
541 |
6 |
The Vietnam Syndrome |
Vanity Fair |
Aug 2006 |
559 |
3 |
The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro
Dynasty |
Slate |
Aug 7, 2006 |
237 |
4 |
Jessica MitfordÕs Poison Pen |
Atlantic |
Oct 06 |
493 |
4 |
Algeria: A French Quarrel |
Atlantic |
Nov 06 |
709 |
2 |
Eschew the Taboo |
Slate |
Dec 4, 2006 |
3 |
4 |
Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment |
Weekly Standard |
Dec 11, 2006 |
389 |
7 |
Why Women ArenÕt Funny |
Vanity Fair |
Jan 07 |
191 |
30 |
Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For [Introduction to Black
Lamb and Grey Falcon] |
Penguin classics |
Jan 30, 2007 |
12 |
8 |
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates |
City Journal |
Spring 2007 |
498 |
5 |
The Case of Orientalism |
Atlantic |
Mar 07 |
712 |
3 |
SheÕs No Fundamentalist |
Slate |
Mar 5, 2007 |
519 |
6 |
Holiday In Iraq |
Vanity Fair |
Apr 07 |
739 |
2 |
The You Decade |
Slate |
Apr 9, 2007 |
742 |
2 |
Suck It Up |
Slate |
Apr 26, 2007 |
180 |
10 |
MarxÕs Journalism: The Grub Street Years |
Guardian (London) |
June 16, 2007 |
526 |
5 |
Tunisia: At the DesertÕs Edge |
Vanity Fair |
Jul 07 |
722 |
3 |
DonÕt Mince Words |
Slate |
July 2, 2007 |
308 |
14 |
Death From a Salesman: Graham GreeneÕs Bottled Ontology
[Introduction to Our Man in Havana] |
Penguin classics |
July 31, 2007 |
380 |
5 |
Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived |
NYT Book Review |
Aug 12, 2007 |
99 |
8 |
An Anglosphere Future |
City Journal |
Fall 07 |
411 |
2 |
So Many MenÕs Rooms, So Little Time |
Slate |
Sep 1, 2007 |
62 |
7 |
Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator |
Atlantic |
Nov 07 |
85 |
3 |
John Updike: Mr. Geniality |
NYT Book Review |
Nov 4, 2007 |
471 |
2 |
Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny |
Slate |
Dec 27, 2007 |
730 |
2 |
Words Matter |
Slate |
Mar 3, 2008 |
222 |
5 |
Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton |
Atlantic |
April 08 |
139 |
6 |
Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity |
Vanity Fair online |
Apr 14, 2008 |
669 |
3 |
Just Give Peace a Chance? |
New Statesman |
May 19, 2008 |
426 |
2 |
Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite |
Slate |
May 26, 2008 |
375 |
4 |
Saki: Where the Wild Things Are |
Atlantic |
June 2008 |
661 |
7 |
A War Worth Fighting |
Newsweek |
June 23, 2008 |
448 |
6 |
Believe Me, ItÕs Torture |
Vanity Fair |
Aug 2008 |
573 |
8 |
The Case For Humanitarian Intervention |
Foreign Affairs |
Sep/Oct 2008 |
94 |
4 |
America the Banana Republic |
Vanity Fair online |
Oct 9, 2008 |
748 |
1.5 |
Prisoner of Shelves |
City Journal |
Winter 2008 |
165 |
5 |
Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries |
Atlantic |
Mar 09 |
340 |
6 |
Edward Upward: The Captive Mind |
Atlantic |
May 09 |
513 |
5 |
The Swastika and the Cedar |
Vanity Fair |
May 09 |
34 |
5 |
Abraham Lincoln: MiseryÕs Child |
Atlantic |
July/Aug 09 |
532 |
2 |
What Happened to the Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem? |
Slate |
July 13, 2009 |
548 |
4 |
Once Upon A Time In Germany |
Vanity Fair online |
Aug 17, 2009 |
445 |
2 |
First, Silence the Whistle-Blower |
Slate |
Nov 2, 2009 |
397 |
5 |
Stieg Larsson: The Author Who
Played With Fire |
Vanity Fair |
Dec 09 |
602 |
4 |
Arthur Koestler: The Zealot |
Atlantic |
Dec 09 |
124 |
6 |
In Defense of Foxhole Atheists |
Vanity Fair online |
Dec 15, 2009 |
353 |
4 |
J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist |
Atlantic |
Jan/Feb 2010 |
736 |
2 |
The "Other" L-Word |
Vanity Fair online |
Jan 13, 2010 |
89 |
4 |
Vidal Loco |
Vanity Fair |
Feb 2010 |
556 |
2 |
North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves |
Slate |
Feb 1, 2010 |
146 |
5 |
The Men Who Made England: Hilary MantelÕs "Wolf Hall" |
Atlantic |
March 2010 |
467 |
3 |
Long Live Democratic Seismology |
Slate |
Mar 1, 2010 |
414 |
8 |
The New Commandments |
Vanity Fair |
April 2010 |
566 |
2 |
Is the Euro Doomed? |
Slate |
Apr 26, 2010 |
175 |
4 |
The Dark Side of Dickens |
Atlantic |
May 2010 |
423 |
2 |
In Your Face (*pre-diagnosis) |
Slate |
May 10, 2010 |
429 |
2 |
Charles, Prince of Piffle (*post-diagnosis) |
Slate |
June 14, 2010 |
563 |
2 |
Hugo Boss |
Slate |
Aug 2, 2010 |
131 |
5 |
In Search of the Washington Novel |
City Journal |
Autumn 2010 |
323 |
8 |
Loving Philip Larkin |
Atlantic |
May 2011 |
687 |
9 |
When the King Saved God |
Vanity Fair |
May 2011 |
474 |
5 |
From Abbottabad to Worse |
Vanity Fair |
July 2011 |
xv |
4 |
Introduction to Arguably (written June 26, 2011) |
Twelve |
Sep 1, 2011 |