Introduction: The Writer’s Time
POLITICS AND CULTURE
The Rainbow Sign
Bradford
Wild Women, Wild Men
Finishing the Job
Eight Arms to Hold You
The Word and the Bomb
Fear Eats the Soul
Newness in the World: An Introduction to The Black Album
Back to the Borderline
The Arduous Conversation Will Continue
The Carnival of Culture, 28 July 2005
Humouring the State: The PEN/Pinter Prize Lecture, 2010
FILMS
Introduction to My Beautiful Laundrette
Some time with Stephen: A Diary
Introduction to London Kills Me
The Boy in the Bedroom
The Road Exactly: Introduction to My Son the Fanatic
Sex and Secularity: Introduction to Collected Screenplays One
Filming Intimacy
Mad Old Men: The Writing of Venus
WRITING
Something Given: Reflections on Writing
Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on teaching and the writing life
The Writer and the Teacher
The Rising Line
Loose Tongues
Telling Stories
Introduction to The Collected Stories of John Cheever
Introduction to The Graduate by Charles Webb
DOMESTIC
The Commitment to Pleasure
A Great Leap
Venice in Winter
About the Author
