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"Every Eckermann His Own Man" (1988)

"Novelists and Critics of the 1940s" (1953)

"A Note on the Novel" (1956)

"Satire in the 1950s" (1958)

"Norman Mailer's Self-Advertisements" (1960)

"Writers and the World" (1965)

"Literary Gangsters" (1970)

"Love, Love, Love" (1959)

"The Top Ten Best-Sellers" (1973)

"French Letters: Theories of the New Novel" (1967)

"The Hacks of Academe" (1976)

"American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction" (1970)

"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)

"Meredith" (1970)

"The Bookchat of Henry James" (1986)

"The Golden Bowl of Henry James" (1984)

"Logan Pearsall Smith Loves the Adverb" (1984)

"William Dean Howells" (1983)

"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)

"Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House" (1959)

"Maugham's Half & Half" (1990)

"Ford's Way" (1990)

The Sexus of Henry Miller" (1965)

"Pen Pals: Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell" (1988)

"Edmund Wilson: this Critic and this Gin and these Shoes" (1980)

"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case" (1980)

"Dawn Powell: the American Writer" (1987)

"John O'Hara" (1964)

"John Horne Burns" (1965)

John Dos Passos at Midcentury" (1961)

"Book Report" (1956)

"V.S. Pritchett as 'Critic'" (1979)

"The Great World and Louis Auchincloss" (1974)

"Miss Sontag's New Novel" (1967)

"Doris Lessing's Science Fiction" (1979)

"Christopher Isherwood's Kind" (1976)

"On Prettiness" (1978)

"Why I am Eight Years Younger than Anthony Burgess" (1987)

"Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection" (1983)

"Professor V. Nabakov" (1983)

"Paul Bowles's Stories" (1983)

"Tennessee Williams: Someone to Laugh at the Squares With" (1985)

"The Death of Mishima" (1971)

"Sciascia's Italy" (1979)

"Calvino's Novels" (1974)

"Calvino's Death" (1985)

"Montaigne" (1992)

"The Twelve Caesars" (1952)

"Sex and the Law" (1965)

"Sex Is Politics" (1979)

"Police Brutality" (1961)

"Pornography" (1966)

"Doc Reuben" (1970)

"Women's Liberation: Feminism and Its Discontents" (1971)

"Pink Triangle and Yellow Star" (1981)

"The Birds and the Bees" (1991)

"How to Find God and Make Money" (1978)

"Rich Kids" (1978)

"The Four Generations of the Adams Family" (1976)

"First Note on Abraham Lincoln" (1981)

"Lincoln, Lincoln, and the Priests of Academe" (1988-91)

"Last Note on Lincoln" (1991)

"President and Mrs. U.S. Grant (1975)

"Theodore Roosevelt: an American Sissy" (1981)

"Eleanor Roosevelt" (1971)

"H.L. Mencken the Journalist" (1991)

"Paranoid Politics" (1967)

"What Robert Moses Did to New York City" (1974)

"Conglomerates" (1973)

"Edmund Wilson, Tax Dodger" (1963)

"President Kennedy" (1961)

"The Manchester Book" (1967)

"The Holy Family" (1967)

"Barry Goldwater: a Chat" (1961)

"The 29th Republican Convention" (1968)

"Political Melodramas" (1973)

"The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt" (1976)

"An American Press Lord" (1970)

"H. Hughes" (1972)

"Richard Nixon: Not The Best Man's Best Man" (1983)

"Homage to Daniel Shays" (1972)

"The State of the Union: 1975" (1975)

"The State of the Union: 1980" (1980)

"The Real Two-Party System" (1980)

"The Second American Revolution" (1981)

"Ronnie and Nancy: A Life in Pictures" (1983)

"Armageddon?" (1987)

"The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas" (1986)

"A Cheerful Response" (1986)

"The National Security State" (1988)

"Cue the Green God, Ted" (1989)

"Gods & Greens" (1989)

"Patriotism" (1991)

"Monotheism and Its Discontents" (1992)

"At Home in Washington, D.C." (1982)

"On Flying" (1985)

"West Point" (1973)

"The Oz Books" (1977)

"E. Nesbit's Magic" (1964)

"Tarzan Revisited" (1963)

"Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self" (1976)

"The Fourth Diary of Anaos Nin" (1971)

"Writing Plays for Television" (1956)

"Visit to A Small Planet" (1957)

"Who Makes the Movies?" (1976)

"Gore Vidal" (1968)

"Hollywood!" (1982)

"Remembering Orson Welles" (1989)

"Contagious Self-Love" (1974)

"Nasser's Egypt" (1963)

"Mongolia!" (1983)

"At Home in a Roman Street" (1985)

"Reflections on Glory Reflected and Otherwise" (1991)

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Paul Bowles

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

H.L. Mencken

President John F. Kennedy

Barry Goldwater

President Richard Nixon

President Ronald Reagan

Senator T.P. Gore

Amelia Earhart

Howard Hughes

Truman Capote

Henry James

Tennessee Williams

Anais Nin

Gore Vidal

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Seventh Earl of Longford

Gamal Abdul Nasser

Edmund Wilson

President Eisenhower

Norman Mailer

Thomas Wolfe

Frederick Prokosch

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