From the Book - First Vintage International edition.
Ethics and morals... The American eagle --
Guideline: Things fiction can't do --
Phoebe: the business... So I went round there --
Guideline: The novel moves on --
Jerusalem... Bitter furies of complexity --
Guideline: Literature and violence --
The night of shame... She's scaring me, Hitch --
Transitional: The sources of the being --
France in the time of Iraq 1: Anti:américain --
September 11 (1): The day after --
September 11 (2): The day before the day after --
September 11 (3): The days after the day after --
France in the time of Iraq 2: Shock and awe --
Interludial: Memos to my reader, and 'Oktober' --
The shadow-line... Nobodaddy --
Hitchens goes to Houston... He's an ox --
Politics and the bedroom... Not left wing enough --
Hitchens stays on in Houston... The synchrotron --
And say why it never worked for me... Invidia --
Preamble: The fire on New Year's Eve --
Christopher: Everyone pray for Hitchens Day --
How to write: The mind's ear --
Philip: The love of his life --
How to write: Impersonal forces --
How to write: The uses of variety --
London: Phoebe at seventy-five --
'It seemed that out of battle I escaped' --
The poet: December 1985 --
The novelist: April 2005 --
The essayist: December 2011 --
Afterthought: Masada and the Dead Sea --
Addendum: Elizabeth Jane Howard.
