The author and publishers would like to acknowledge and thank the following publications and institutions. Although the copyright for each piece lies with the author, every effort has been made to trace and contact the relevant primary publishers in each instance. The publishers would be pleased to correct any omissions or errors in any future editions.
Travelling
‘Sail Away: Six Days to New York on the Queen Mary 2’, New Yorker, 31 May 2004
‘The Unloved American: Two Centuries of Alienating Europe’, New Yorker, 10 March 2003
‘Amsterdam’, an uncut version of the essay in John Julius Norwich, (ed.), The Great Cities in History, 2009
‘Washington DC’, an uncut version of the essay in John Julius Norwich, (ed.), The Great Cities in History, 2009
‘Brazil’, Financial Times Diary, 22 November 2008
‘Comedy Meets Catastrophe’, Financial Times, 26 September 2009
Testing Democracy
‘9/11’, Guardian, 14 September 2001
‘The Dead and The Guilty: 9/11 A Year On’, Guardian, 11 September 2002
‘The Civil War in the USA’, Guardian, 5 November 2004
‘Katrina and George Bush’, Guardian, 12 September 2005
‘In its severity and fury, this was Obama at his most powerful and moving’, Guardian, 30 August 2008
‘Bye-Bye Dubya’, Guardian 3 November 2008
‘The British Election’, Guardian, 5 May 2005
‘Virtual Annihilation’, originally published in Ron Rosenbaum (ed.), Those Who Forget the Past: A Question of Anti-Semitism, 2004
Talking And Listening
‘TBM and John’, originally in After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain, Peter Mandler and Susan Pedersen (eds.), 1994
‘Isaiah Berlin’, The New Republic 31 January 2005
‘J. H. Plumb’, introduction to the new edition of The Death of the Past, Niall Ferguson (ed.), 2003, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan
‘Rescuing Churchill’, The New York Review of Books, 28 February 2002
‘The Lost Art of Great Speechmaking’, Guardian, 20 April 2007
‘The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of the Osbournes’, Phi Beta Kappa Oration, Harvard University, 3 June 2002
‘Barack Obama’, The Independent, 23 January 2009
Performing
Richard II, note from the Almeida Theatre Production of Richard II, Almedia at Gainsbrough studios, 2002
Henry IV, note for Royal Shakespeare Company production, 2008
‘Martin Scorsese: Good Fella’, Financial Times, 31 October 2009
‘Charlotte Rampling: “A Documentary of Me”’, Harper’s Bazaar, January 2010
‘Clio at the Multiplex’, the New Yorker, 19 January 1998
‘True Confessions of a History Boy’, National Theatre programme essay for Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, May 2004
Picturing
‘The Matter of the Unripe Nectarine: High ground/low ground and Ruskin’s Prejudices’, Christ Church Symposium, on the centenar of Ruskin’s death, Oxford, 1 April 2000
‘Dutch Courage’, Guardian, 23 June 2007
‘Rubens’, Guardian, 22 October 2005
‘The Patriot: Turner And The Drama Of History’, the New Yorker, 24 September 2007
‘Carnival and Cacophony’, Financial Times, 4 July 2009
‘Rembrandt’s Ghost: Picasso Looks Back’, the New Yorker, 26 March 2007
Anselm Kiefer (1), Guardian, 20 January 2007
‘In Mesopotamia: Anselm Kiefer (2)’, Catalogue essay for the Anselm Kiefer exhibition Karfunkelfee and the Fertile Crescent, White Cube, Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard, October-November 2009
‘John Virtue: The Epic Of Paint’, National Gallery catalogue essay, 2007
‘Avedon: Power’, Guardian, 27 September 2008
Cooking And Eating
‘Cool as Ice’, Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd, August 2007
‘Sauce of Controversy’, Guardian, 26 November 2008
‘The Great G2 Recipe Swap: Cheese Soufflé’, Guardian, 2 March 2009
‘Simmer of Love’, Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd, winter 2008
‘My Mother’s Kitchen’, Observer Food Magazine, 11 October 2009
‘Mouthing Off’, Oxford Food Symposium, September 2009
Remembering
‘Omaha Beach’, Financial Times Diary, 13 June 2009
‘Gothic Language: Carlyle, Ruskin and the Morality of Exuberance’, London Library Lecture, 12 July 2008
‘The History Of Britain: A Response’, American Historical Review, June 2009
‘The Monte Lupo Story’, London Review of Books, 18 September –
1 October 1980
‘No Walnuts, No Enlightenment’, London Review of Books, 20 December 1979
‘Abolishing the Slave Trade in Britain and America – Sound and Fury or Deafening Silence?’, Stanford University Presidential Lecture, 2007
In A League of Its Own
‘Red October’, Guardian, 29 October 2004