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Index
Cover
Also by Martin Amis
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preludial
Part I
1 | Ethics and Morals…The American eagle
Guideline: Things Fiction Can’t Do
2 | Phoebe: The Business…So I went round there
Guideline: The Novel Moves On
3 | Jerusalem…Bitter furies of complexity
Guideline: Literature and Violence
4 | The Night of Shame…She’s scaring me, Hitch
Transitional: The Sources of the Being
Part II
1 | France in the Time of Iraq 1: Anti-américain
2 | September 11 1: The day after
3 | September 11 2: The day before the day after
4 | September 11 3: The days after the day after
5 | France in the Time of Iraq 2: Shock and Awe
Interludial: Memos to my reader, and ‘Oktober’
Part III—Dissolutions: Antepenultimate
1 | The Shadow-Line…Nobodaddy
2 | Hitchens Goes to Houston…He’s an ox
3 | Politics and the Bedroom…Not left wing enough
4 | Hitchens Stays On in Houston…The synchrotron
5 | And say why it never worked for me…Invidia
Part IV—Penultimate
Preamble: The Fire on New Year’s Eve
1 | Christopher: Everyone Pray for Hitchens Day
How to Write: The Mind’s Ear
2 | Saul: Idlewild
How to Write: Decorum
3 | Philip: The Love of His Life
How to Write: Impersonal Forces
4 | Beelzebub
How to Write: The Uses of Variety
5 | London: Phoebe at Seventy-Five
Part V—Ultimate: Doing the Dying
‘It seemed that out of battle I escaped’
The Poet: December 1985
The Novelist: April 2005
The Essayist: December 2011
Postludial
Afterthought: Masada and the Dead Sea
Addendum: Elizabeth Jane Howard
Illustration Credits
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