Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind - Occasional Essays

“Joint Statement of Inauthenticity, The,”

Jolie, Angelina

Joyce, James

“Judgment, The” (Kafka)

Kael, Pauline

Kafka, Franz

as allegedly self-hating Jew

Brod’s friendship with

brothels visited by

descriptions of

diary of

letters of

organization of day of

and request for burning of work

revision of ideas on

time in

unconventionality of

on women

at work

Kant, Immanuel

Keats, John

Kelly, Grace

Kennedy, Robert

Kiedis, Anthony

King, Carole

King, Martin Luther

“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge)

Kundera, Milan

Kushner, Tony

Ladislaw (char.)

Lakes, The

Lancaster, Burt

Larkin, Philip

Lawrence. H.

League of Nations

Lean, David

Lectures on Literature (Nabokov)

Ledger, Heath

Lee, Harper

Lennon, John

Lermontov, Mikhail

Letter to My Father (Kafka)

Lewes, George

Li, Gong

Liberia

civil war in

education in

ex-combatants in

independence declared by

1980 coup in

poverty in

rubber workers in

UN sex abuse scandal in

Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary

Liberia: The Heart of Darkness

“Literary World, The” (Larkin)

Little Women (film)

Lloyd, David

Locke, John

logotherapy

Lolita (Nabokov)

Lydgate, Dr. (char.)

Lynch, David

Macaulay, Rose

Macaulay, Thomas

McCain, John

MacCarthy, Desmond

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthy, Tom

Macro Planners

Magic Flute, The (Dickinson)

Magnani, Anna

Malinke tribes

Mamba Point Hotel

Mansfield, Katherine

Mansfield Park (Austen)

Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl)

Marshall, Rob

Martin, Steve

Matrix trilogy

Maugham, Somerset

Maurice (Forster)

Mayer, Louis B.

Melville, Herman

Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

Men in Space (McCarthy)

metafiction

Micro Managers

Middlemarch (Eliot)

authorial attention in

subjectivity of

Milton, John

Miss Brooke (Eliot)

Mittal Steel

Monroe, Marilyn

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (film)

Morecambe and Wise

Moss, Annie

Motion, Andrew

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Munich (film)

Murrow, Edward R.

Nabokov, Vera

Nabokov, Vladimir

artistic style of

authorial privilege and

on Gregor Samsa

on inspiration

on knowledge of reality

on subjectivity

Naipaul. S.

“Natural Woman” (song)

Negative Capability

neorealismo

Netherland (O’Neill)

Neugroschel, Joachim

Newbolt, Henry

New Yorker

New York Times Book Review

Nimba

Ninotchka (film)

“No More Parades” (Amis)

Normandy

nouveau roman

novels:

architecture of

editing of

first twenty pages of

future of

middle of

proofs of

scaffolding of

Obama, Barack

Oblivion (Wallace)

obsessive perspective disorder (OPD)

Ocean’s Eleven (film)

Ocean’s Twelve (film)

“Octet” (Wallace)

Office, The (TV show)

“Old Fools, The” (Larkin)

On Beauty (Smith)

One Day in September (film)

“On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand” (Wallace)

Oscars

Oxfam

Pale King, The (Wallace)

Paltrow, Gwyneth

Parker, Dorothy

Pat and Mike (film)

Paynesville School

Perec, Georges

Père Goriot (Balzac)

Perkins, Maxwell

Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (iek)

Pessoa, Fernando António Nogueia

Philadelphia Story, The (film)

“Philosophical Investigations” (Wittgenstein)

Phoenix, Joaquin

Picasso, Pablo

Pickering, Colonel (char.)

Plath, Sylvia

Plato

Pleasure of the Text, The (Barthes)

Pnin (Nabokov)

Pniniad (Diment)

Pope, Alexander

Portman, Natalie

poshlust

Pretty Woman (film)

Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

Princess Casamassima, The (James)

Proof (film)

Pygmalion (Shaw)

Pynchon, Thomas

Queen Christina (film)

Queen Victoria (Strachey)

Ramkissoon, Chuck

readers, reading:

as creative

ideal

pleasures of

Rear Window

“Reenactor” (char.)

Remainder (McCarthy)

self-ridiculing humor of

space in

“Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge)

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Romance & Cigarettes (film)

Room with a View, A (Forster)

Roth, Philip

Rush, Geoffrey

Sade, Marquis de

Saga of Gosta Berling, The (film)

Samsa, Gregor (char.)

Samways, Phil

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saving Private Ryan (film)

Scaife, Bert

Scudder, Alex (char.)

See It Now (TV show)

“Self’s the Man” (Larkin)

Selznick, David O.

Sentimental Education, A (Flaubert)

Seraph on the Suwanee (Hurston)

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Shopgirl (film)

Sierra Leone

“Signifying Nothing” (Wallace)

“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (Eliot)

Smith, Ben

comedy act of

Smith, Harvey

ashes of

background of

comedy enjoyed by

death of

fatalism and pessimism of

in World War II,

Smith, Luke

Smith, Perry

solipsism

Spielberg, Steven

Spinoza, Baruch

Starks, Joe (char.)

Stewart, Jimmy

Stiller, Mauritz

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (film)

Strong Opinions (Nabokov)

Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

“Suicide as a Sort of Present” (Wallace)

Sunday Telegraph

Sylvia Scarlett (film)

Syriana (film)

S/Z (Barthes)

Szymborska, Wislawa

Tapestry (album)

Taylor, Charles

text:

codes in

indeterminacy of

readerly

writerly

Thalberg, Irving

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)

Theron, Charlize

“Think” (Wallace)

Thirlwell, Adam

Tolbert, William

Tolstoy, Leo

“Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” (Wittgenstein)

Tracy, Spencer

Traffic (film)

Transamerica (film)

Treadwell, Timothy

Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, The: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay (Begley)

Trial, The (Kafka)

“Triple Dream, The” (Lermontov)

“Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” (Wallace)

True Whig Party

Tsotsi (film)

Tubman, William

Turturro, John

Two-Faced Woman (film)

Two Ronnies

Unity Temple

Valentino, Rudolph

Valéry, Paul

Vallon, Annette

van den Broek, Hans (char.)

van den Broek, Rachel (char.)

Van Eyck, Hubert

vdokhnovenie (recapture)

V for Vendetta (film)

Vincy, Fred (char.)

Vincy, Rosamund (char.)

Virgil

Visconti, Luchino

Vitti, Monica

vorstog (initial rapture)

Vyas, Nazrul Ram (char.)

Wade, Aubrey

Walker, Alice

Walk the Line (film)

Wallace, David Foster

commencement speech of

difficulties of

insistence on awareness in work of

Larkin’s poetry and

linguistic specialization in work of

MacArthur won by

parables of

“self” in work of

Wasteland, The (Eliot)

Watanabe, Ken

“Water” (Larkin)

Waugh, Evelyn

Weil, Simone

Wells, H. G.

Werfel, Franz

West Point

“What I Believe” (broadcast)

Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster)

White Teeth (Smith)

Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)

Wilcox, Henry (char.)

Wilkerson, Mr.

Willesden

Wilton, Penelope

Witherspoon, Reese

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wodehouse, P. G.

Women and Children Development Association of Liberia (WOCDAL)