Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue: “Orwell” Still Lives xi
5. Introduction: George Orwell and His Intellectual Progeny 1
6. PART ONE. Their Orwell, Left and Right
7. CHAPTER ONE: “Not One of Us?” Orwell and the London Left of the 1930s and ’40s 9
8. CHAPTER TWO: “A Moral Genius”: Orwell and the Movement Writers of the 1950s 33
9. CHAPTER THREE: “London Letter” from a Family Cousin: The New York Intellectuals’ Adoption of Orwell 55
10. CHAPTER FOUR: “A Leftist by Accident?” Orwell and the American Cultural Conservatives 75
11. CHAPTER FIVE: Does Orwell Matter? Between Fraternity and Fratricide at the Nation 89
12. PART TWO. Orwell’s Literary Siblings Today
13. CHAPTER SIX: Iraq, the Internet, and “the Big O” in 2003: A Centennial Report 113
14. CHAPTER SEVEN: The Man within the Writings 145
15. CHAPTER EIGHT: Unlessons from My Intellectual Big Brother 167
16. Epilogue: On the Ethics of Literary Reputation 181
17. Notes 193
18. Bibliography 245
19. Index 249