CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SELECTIONS -- 1 "Poisson d'Avril"/"Poison d'Autrui" -- 2 "Christine" -- 3 Profile: Mr. Sean MacBride, T.D. -- 4 The Magic of Mauriac -- 5 A Sunday in East Berlin -- 6 Poetry, Inspiration and Criticism -- 7 The Loved One -- 8 Carey Bloom -- 9 Serpents -- 10 Orwell Looks at the World -- 11 My Case -- 12 White Gods and Black Americans -- 13 Neo-Colonialism -- 14 Yeats and Fascism: What Rough Beast -- 15 A Long Engagement -- 16 The Neurosis of Colonialism -- 17 Nkrumah-The Man I Knew -- 18 The Embers of Easter -- 19 The Homer Watt Lecture -- 20 Encounter Retorts -- 21 Burke, Marx, and History -- 22 Two-Faced Cathleen -- 23 In Quest of Uncle Tom -- 24 Inside Biafra -- 25 Student Unrest -- 26 Biafra Revisited -- 27 Camus, Algeria, and "The Fall" -- 28 Holy War -- 29 America First or Varieties of Americocentrism -- 30 The Gentle Nietzscheans -- 31 Mr. Alec Foster: An Appreciation -- 32 Now They Talk of Over-Information -- 33 Hands Off -- 34 Dead Cat Calwell Meets Arctic Dev -- 35 Fwowing Up with Dorothy Parker -- 36 African Self-Righteousness Is as Tiresome as European -- 37 Kangaroo Tickets and Black Politics -- 38 Parnell and His Party, Reconsidered -- 39 What Rough Beast? -- 40 Blueshirts and Quislings -- 41 The Four Horsemen -- 42 The Artist as Pompous Prig -- 43 A Step to Watch -- 44 Death in the Afternoon -- 45 Islam's Example -- 46 UN Theater -- 47 An Exalted Nationalism -- 48 A Vindication of Edmund Burke -- 49 Pride in the Language -- 50 Your Lordships: An Open Letter to the Irish Catholic Hierarchy -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.