Mizener, Arthur 260, 267
Mizler, Harry 425
Mob, the 421–422, 428
Modern English Usage (Fowler) 71, 340, 481–483
Momigliano, Arnaldo 10, 15–16, 145, 238, 246, 306, 314, 497
Mommie Dearest (Crawford) 109
Mommsen, Theodor 18, 439, 537
Moncrieff, C. K. Scott 191–197
early life of 193–194
homosexuality of 193, 195
Monkey Business 411
Montaigne, Michel de 13, 33, 153, 245, 252, 254, 256
Auerbach on 155
on death 36–37, 479, 538–539
on Tacitus 324–325
Montesquieu, Charles-Lous de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de 311, 461–463
Moore, Marianne 392
More in Sorrow (Gibbs) 274
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 205–206
Morrison, Toni 108, 373
Morris, William 333
Morte D’Urban (Powers) 294, 297
Mostel, Zero 393
Motherwell, Robert 537
Motion, Andrew 211–212, 214, 371
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway) 358
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 59, 447
Muggeridge, Malcolm 187
multiculturalism 109–110, 129, 134, 145
Murdoch, Iris 297
Murphy, Eddie 98
Murphy, Gerald 270
Murphy, “Kid” 425
Murphy, Ryan 113
Murphy, Sara 270
Murry, John Middleton 206
Musil, Robert 472
Musings on Mortality (Mann) 38–39, 152
Mussolini, Benito 16, 179, 195
My Antonia (Cather) 215, 220
My Past and Thoughts (Herzen) 1
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Nabokov, Vladimir 90, 278, 297, 359–363, 370, 398
autobiography of 473–476
on death 35
on Dostoyevsky 356
on Gogol 470–471
on identifying with fictional characters 368
Naipaul, V. S. 20, 359
Namier, Lewis 248
Napoleon. See Bonaparte, Napoleon
“Natica Jackson” (O’Hara) 265–266
Nation 142, 170, 184, 436
Navratilova, Martina 113
Necker, Jacques 301
Nemerov, Howard 209
Nero 18, 301, 323, 325, 327–330, 376, 477, 499, 538
Netanyahu, Benjamin 442
Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age (Jacoby) 78
New Criterion 11
Newman, Paul 124
New Republic 142, 221
New Revised Standard Version of the Bible 278
New Statesman 177, 205
Newton, Isaac 59
New Witness 194
New Yorker 82, 259, 261, 263, 265, 296, 537
cartoons 90–91, 94
Gibbs at 273–281
New York Herald-Tribune 51
New York Review of Books Classics 495
New York Review of Books 231, 246, 361
New York Times Book Review 177, 259
New York Times 12, 105, 109, 293, 352, 364, 411, 431, 434, 535
New York World 51
Nichols, Mike 137, 143
Niebuhr, Reinhold 478
Nietzsche, Friederich 301, 457
genius and 58–60, 63
Night at the Opera, A 410
Night in Casablanca, A 410
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) 168–169
Nisbet, Robert 79, 392
Nixon, Richard 73
No Exit (Sartre) 276
Norris, Frank 156
Northcliffe, Alfred Lord 195, 335
North, Oliver 399
“Nose, The” (Gogol) 469
Notebooks 1922–86 (Oakeshott) 254–255, 257
“Notes on Nationalism” (Orwell) 180
Not Under Forty (Cather) 221
Novak, William 399–400, 403
Nun’s Story, The 445
O
Oakeshott, Michael 18, 20, 242, 249–257
Kristol and 249–251
on conservatism 252–254
on conversation 251–252
on politics 250, 252–256
on rationalism 253–254
on the role of government 253
on the scientist 257
philosophy of 251
Oates, Joyce Carol 364
Obama, Barack 105–106, 107, 111, 280
Oblomov (Goncharov) 469
O’Brien, Conor Cruise 172–173, 185
O’Brien, Edmund 169
O’Brien, Pat 445
O’Connor, Flannery 294
O’Day, Anita 120
“O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?” (Farber) 42
Of Many Things 85
O’Hara, John 102, 259–266
early life 260–261
mixed critical reaction to 259–260
on the death of the novel 18
status consciousness of 263–264
O’Keefe, Eddie 424
Old Bunch, The (Levin) 517–519
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens) 39
“Older Dude, An” (Epstein) 540
Oliver, John 96
“On Account of a Hat” (Aleichem) 391
“On Being Conservative” (Oakeshott) 249, 252
O’Neill, Eugene 18, 276
O’Neill, Tip 399
One of Ours (Cather) 215, 220
“On Fear” (Montaigne) 538
On History (Oakeshott) 253
Onion, The 94
Only in America (Golden) 434
O Pioneers! (Cather) 215
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The (Waugh) 284–286
Origins of Cool in Postwar America, The (Dinerstein) 117, 120, 124
Orwell, George 114, 134, 167–185, 473
Owen, Wilfred 194, 219
Oxford English Dictionary 336, 483
Oxford University Press 235, 481
Ozick, Cynthia 438
P
Paar, Jack 51, 97, 431
Painter, George 196–197
Pal Joey 262
Paltrow, Gwyneth 8
Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (Richardson) 144, 360
Panorama 112
Paradise Lost (Brown) 267
Paradise Regained (Milton) 144
Parallel of Poetry and Painting, A (Dryden) 57
parenting 23–31, 285
Parker, Charlie 118, 214
Parker, Dorothy 50, 53, 274
Parks, Rosa 434
Partisan Review 12
Pascal, Blaise 33, 34, 59, 143, 153, 252, 254, 307
“Passio as Passion” (Auerbach) 153
Pasternak, Boris 237, 493
“Pat Collins” (O’Hara) 265–266
Patterns of Culture (Benedict) 142
Paul, Margaret 239
Pearlman, Barry 429
Peele, Jordan 98
Penguin Classics 33
Pensées (Pascal) 34
Perelman, S. J. 274, 409, 411
Pericles 59, 317
Persian Letters (Montesquieu) 461
Personal Impressions (Berlin) 238, 240
Phaedo (Plato) 43, 44
Phelps, William Lyon 222
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (Motion) 211
Phillips, William 12
Philogelos 396
Photoplay 412
Picasso, Pablo 59, 161, 214
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens) 360
P
ictures from an Institution (Jarrell) 356
Pindar 62
Pinker, Steven 342–345
Pinkerton, John 311
Pipe Night (O’Hara) 259
Pirandello, Luigi 191, 195
Pitt, Brad 124
“Place of Laughter in Tudor and Stuart England, The” (Thomas) 396
“Place of Learning, A” (Oakeshott) 252, 256
Plato 43, 44, 59, 143–144, 255, 306, 314, 477, 507
Pliny the Elder 331
Pliny the Younger 321–322
pluralism 236
PM 276
Podhoretz, John 3
Poehler, Amy 52
Poetics, The (Aristotle) 55, 143
political correctness 74, 96, 110–112, 145, 212, 227, 371
as a target of humorists 96, 401–402
“Politics and the English Language” (Orwell) 168
Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of “St. George” Orwell (Rodden) 174, 175, 176
“Politics vs. Literature” (Orwell) 184
Pope, Alexander 47–48, 368, 523
Pope Boniface VIII 309
Pope Pius XII 246
Porter, Cole 47, 270, 447, 528
Porter, Fairfield 537
Porter, Katherine Anne 18, 296, 297
Portrait of a Lady, The (James) 49
Potok, Chaim 485
Pottsville Journal 261
Pound, Ezra 214, 342, 358
Eliot and 204
on socialism 180
Powers, J. F. 290, 293–298
criticism from Catholics 295
family life 295–296
Powers, Katherine A. 295
“Preface to Persius, A” (Wilson) 13
Presley, Elvis 118, 410
Pressfield, Steven 485
“Princess with the Golden Hair, The” (Wilson) 362
Prince, The (Machiavelli) 465–466, 498, 507
Pritchett, V. S. 177–178, 291
Prochnik, George 438–439, 441–442
Producers, The 97
Professor’s House, The (Cather) 41, 215, 218, 222
Prophet’s Wife, The (Steinberg) 485
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The (Weber) 143
Proust, Marcel 16, 79, 112, 139, 142, 153, 157, 159, 163, 168, 242, 247, 254, 279, 340, 532
Auerbach on 154
Moncrieff translation of 191–193
music and 187–189
on aging 532
on paradises 267
Provincial Letters (Pascal) 307
Pryce-Jones, David 243
Pryor, Richard 98
Pushkin, Alexander 361, 375, 470, 493
Pym, Barbara 213
Pynchon, Thomas 171
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Quest for Corvo, The (Symons) 513–515
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Rabinovich, Nochem 380
Rafferty & Co. (Powers) 296
“Raffles and Miss Blandish” (Orwell) 179
Rage to Live, A (O’Hara) 265
Rahv, Philip 356
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry) 123
Rambler, The (Johnson) 374, 522
Rampersad, Arnold 372–373
Raphael 58–59, 458, 494, 505
Rasofsky, Isidore 426
Reagan, Nancy 399
Reagan, Ronald 105, 352
Rebel Without a Cause 122–123
Red Army 494
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane) 71
Red Cavalry (Babel) 494
Reed, John 203
Reisman, David 50
Rembrandt 59
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust) 191
Remnick, David 94, 280
Renard, Jules 182
Renault, Mary 485
Reston, James 431
Richards, I. A. 206
Richardson, Samuel 144, 523
rivalry with Fielding 359–360
Rickles, Don 122, 415
Riskin, Morrie 411
rivals, literary 355–364
Road to Wigan Pier, The (Orwell) 174, 179, 180
Robinson, Sugar Ray 420
Rodden, John 174–177
Rodgers and Hart 270, 528
Rogers, Roy 446
Rolfe, Frederick 513–515
Roman Revolution, The (Syme) 376, 509, 511
Rome 18, 36, 187, 248, 289, 300, 303, 305–307, 321, 323, 324, 326–328, 332, 367, 396, 463, 466–467, 477, 509, 528, 537
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 276
Rooney, Mickey 445
Roosevelt, Eleanor 401
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 104, 146, 517
Roosevelt, Theodore 73, 501
Rorty, Richard 145
Rosenberg, Harold 91–92, 278, 416
Rosenbloom, Slapsie Maxie Max 425–426
Roskies, David 389
Ross, Barney 421, 423, 426–427
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 176, 287
Ross, Harold 261, 273, 275, 280
Rossman, Mike 429
Ross, Robert 193
Rostow, Eugene 229
Roth, Philip 290, 357, 434
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 62, 153, 155, 473, 523
Rowse, A. L. 243, 247
Royce, Josiah 204
Rubens, Peter Paul 457
Ruby, Harry 411, 414
Ruby, Jack 415
Runciman, Steven 300
Rushdie, Salman 211, 359, 537
Russell, Bertrand 60, 85, 241
Eliot and 205–206
Russert, Tim 431
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (Scholem) 437
Sacks, Oliver 109
Sahl, Mort 97
Saint-Simon, Duc de 158
Salisbury, Harrison 431
Salita, Dmitriy 429
Sallust 329, 376, 466, 509–510
Saltonstall, Leverett A. 102
Same Old Story, The (Goncharov) 469
Samuel, Maurice 382
Sandburg, Carl 434, 501
Santayana, George 36, 146, 168, 203, 249, 501
distaste for concert-going 187–188
on death 45, 80–81, 529, 535
on grumpiness in old age 36
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Cather) 215
Sartre, Jean-Paul 118–121, 276
Saturday Review 100, 260
Sayre, Zelda 268
Schiller, Friedrich 63
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. 243–244, 247
Schmeling, Max 419
Schoenwald, Irv 421
Scholem, Gershom 12, 383, 437–442
Schopenhauer, Arthur 249
on disillusionment 530, 538
on genius 57–58, 59, 66
on life and death 35
Schorers, Mark 375
Schwartz, Maurice 391
Scienza Nuova (Vico) 153
Scoop (Waugh) 290
Sears, Roebuck and Company 335–336
Second Treatise on Civil Government (Locke) 144
Seinfeld 98
Seinfeld, Jerry 98
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–85 (Thwaite) 211
Seneca 329–330, 477, 538
Sense of Style, The (Pinker) 342–344, 543
Sex and Character (Weininger) 165
Shadows on the Rock (Cather) 215
Shakespeare, William 47, 110, 132, 159, 162, 168, 182, 183, 192, 199, 199–200, 202, 208, 231, 276, 342, 348, 356, 503
as genius 57–59, 62
on cowardice 71
Shamela (Fielding) 360
Sharpton, Al
98, 114
Shattuck, Charles 297
Shaw, George Bernard 50, 292
Shawn, William 273, 278–280
Shean, Alen 409
Sheridan, Richard 48
Shils, Edward 1, 10, 15, 40, 238, 396, 535–536
at the University of Chicago 144–145
on Bellow 355
on true courage 74
synagogue joke 403–404
wit of 50
“Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell) 168
Siegel, Lee 410, 413–417
Silverman, Martha 142
Silverman, Sarah 93, 403
liberalism of 96–97
Silver, Mike 422–429
Simon, André 514
Simon, Ernst 437
Simon, John 340
on wit vs. humor 53
Sinatra, Frank 118, 375
coolness of 122
Singer, Isaac Bashevis 161, 166, 278
Singer, Israel Joshua 453–456
Sinyavsky, Andrei 90
Sisman, Adam 521, 523
Slayton, Bobby 96
Slovik, Eddie 72
Smellie, William 331
Smith, Carol Houck 399
Smith, Sydney 33, 50, 54
Snow, C. P. 243, 358
Socher, Abe 3
Socrates 477
as genius 59–61
on death and the afterlife 43–44, 538
Solon 31, 466, 527
on happiness 39, 317
Solotaroff, Ted 434
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 12, 74, 493
Sommerfield, Marty 69
Song of the Lark, The (Cather) 17, 215
Sontag, Susan 143, 278
Sophocles 527, 538
“Sources of Soviet Conduct, The” (Kennan) 225
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Nabokov) 473–476
Spenser, Edmund 144
Spinoza, Baruch 59–60, 245, 255
Spirit of the Laws, The (Secondat) 461
Spunt, Danny 420
Spunt, Sammy 420
Squire, J. C. 195
Stalin, Josef 59, 72, 179, 245, 248, 494–495
Stars in the Ring (Silver) 422–424, 427, 429
Steinbeck, John 24, 134, 434
Steinberg, Milton 485–487
Steinem, Gloria 129
Steiner, George 143, 243, 438
Stein, Gertrude 45, 60, 358–359, 473
Stendhal 33, 159, 191, 195
Stephens, Alexander 502
Stevenson, Adlai 73, 97, 434
Stevenson, Robert Louis 333
Stevens, Wallace 17, 236, 320
Steward, Jon 96
Stoicism 477
Stone for Danny Fisher, A (Robbins) 143
Stone, Harry 424
Stone, I. F. 246
Stoppard, Tom 52
Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The (Cowley) 269
Stories of J. F. Powers, The (Powers) 294
Story, William Wetmore 369
Strachey, Lytton 205, 375
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem (Prochnik) 439, 441
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