Openings & Outings

An Anthology

David

• Publisher: Criterion Books
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781641772587
• Subtopic: Historical Theory & Criticism
• Index: Literature

Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess's widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, with many stops in between, Openings & Outings presents over fifty years of insight, from a writer with endless scope and perspective.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Temps perdu
• Tangier
• May Day in Piest’any
• When the Nazis Stole My Painting: And the Austrians Didn’t Much Care
• The Dark Lord
• TV Tale of Two Windsors
• The Girl with the Most Famous Cello in the World
• Solti Conducts
• Moses with a Machine-Gun
• The Vanishing World of Mr Thesiger
• The Bête Noire of France’s Left
• Miłosz Among the Ruins
• Elie Kedourie’s Achievement
• The Anti-Historian
• The Unwritten History of the British Empire
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Jerk
• Cracked by a Sound
• Poet of Self-Pity
• Eric Hobsbawm: Lying to the Credulous
• Time Stops at Tassili
• Gifts of the Desert
• No Paella Please. We’re British
• A Redundant General and a “Temporary” President
• Samarkand
• Czech Rule of Lawlessness
• The Long Wait of Frau Ilse Hess
• A 20th Century Career
• Not Their Finest Hour
• Enough Said
• Thoughts of an Arabist
• Here Be Dragons: Robert Fisk at Loose in the Gulf
• The Palestinian Pattern
• The War of the Arabs
• The Other Jubilee
• European Union – A Disaster in the Making
• The Islamization of Europe?
• Europe’s “Terrible Transformation”
• What’s in a Boycott?
• On the Frontlines of Free Speech
• The Trouble with Nark’s Work
• Acknowledgments
• Index