Introduction / Julian Barnes -- The All of Orwell -- Four Essays on Philip Larkin -- 1. Somewhere becoming rain -- 2. On Larkin's Wit -- 3. Don Juan in Hull -- 4. An Affair of Sanity -- Evelyn Waugh's Last Stand -- Charles Johnston's Catacomb Graffiti -- Nabokov's Grand Folly -- How Montale Earned His Living -- On Seamus Heaney -- The Poetry of Edmund Wilson -- Postcard from Rome -- Mrs. T in China -- The Dragon Lady Flies East -- The Great Leap Homeward -- Mailer's Marilyn -- Approximately in the Vicinity of Barry Humphries -- Germaine Greer: Getting Married Later -- Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Masses -- Primo Levi's Last Will and Testament -- Hitler's Unwitting Exculpator -- Postscript to Goldhagen -- Your Space or Mine? -- Up Here from Down There -- The Sherlockologists -- Raymond Chandler -- Souls on Ice: Torvill and Dean
