The red field. Introduction to The red badge of courage -- There it is -- A mistake ten thousand miles long -- The quiet American -- Uncle Sam doesn't want you! -- Out of a clear blue sky -- No such thing as peace -- The holy war -- Disruption. Nineteen eighty-four -- Disruption -- The man who turned on the here -- The boys' octet -- Keeping the future at bay -- East-west relation : summit on Sixth Avenue -- A higher horror of the whiteness -- The morning after -- Havana then and now -- Jerusalem has no past -- Changing tides -- Under the tongue of the ocean -- Does America still exist? -- The heart of the strange story. In silence -- The reason for stories : toward a moral fiction -- What fiction is for -- The way the world is -- Capture -- On Malcolm Lowry -- Coda.
Summary
"The definitive collection of nonfiction-from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing-from the 'legend of American letters' (Vanity Fair)"-- Provided by publisher.