Every Intellectual's Big Brother

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Prologue: “Orwell” Still Lives xi Introduction: George Orwell and His Intellectual Progeny 1 part one Their Orwell, Left and Right chapter one: “Not One of Us?” Orwell and the London Left of the 1930s and ’40s 9 chapter two: “A Moral Genius”: Orwell and the Movement Writers of the 1950s 33 chapter three: “London Letter” from a Family Cousin: The New York Intellectuals’ Adoption of Orwell 55 chapter four: “A Leftist by Accident?” Orwell and the American Cultural Conservatives 75 chapter five: Does Orwell Matter? Between Fraternity and Fratricide at the Nation 89 part two Orwell’s Literary Siblings Today chapter six: Iraq, the Internet, and “the Big O” in 2003: A Centennial Report 113 chapter seven: The Man within the Writings 145 chapter eight: Unlessons from My Intellectual Big Brother 167 Epilogue: On the Ethics of Literary Reputation 181 Notes 193 Bibliography 245 Index 249 Contents THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...