Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings

Introduction xi SELF The Mother Lode 3 My Father's House 19 Sugar Daddy 24 Notes from a Maternity Ward 36 Fools Are My Theme 39 Notes from the Front Line 45 Anger in a Black Landscape 53 BODY LANGUAGE Fleshly Matters Loving Linda 69 Fat Is Ugly 72 A Well-Hung Hang-Up 76 Health on the Brain 81 George Bataille: Story of the Eye 86 Edward Shorter: A History of Women's Bodies 88 Eric Rhode: On Birth and Madness 92 Food Fetishes The New Vegetarians 99 Saucerer's Apprentice 104 Jessica Kuper (ed.) The Anthropologist's Cookbook 108 Barbara Tims (ed.) Food in Vogue 110 Elizabeth David: English Bread and Yeast Cookery 114 An Omelette and a Glass of Wine and Other Dishes 119 Patience Grey: Honey from a Weed 125 DRESSING UP AND DOWN Notes for a Theory of Sixties Style 131 The Wound in the Face 136 Trouser Protest 140 Year of the Punk 145 The Bridled Sweeties 151 Ted Pollhemus and Lynn Proctor: Fashion and Anti-Fashion 156 David Kunzle: Fashion and Fetishisms 157 The Recession Style 161 Lou Taylor: Mourning Dress 166 Elizabeth Wilson: Adorned in Dreams 170 Roland Barthes: The Fashion System 175 Arthur Marwick: Beauty in History 177 WHAT THE HELL - IT'S HOME! Bradford: Industry as Artwork 185 Fin de Siecle 189 The Oss Has His Day 193 Bath, Heritage City 198 What the Hell - It's Home! 204 The Donnie Ferrets 209 The Paris of the North 213 D'You Mean South? 218 Poets in a Landscape 223 So There'll Always Be An England 227 Masochism for the Masses 233 Michael Moorcock: Mother London 240 Iain Sinclair: Downriver 242 TRAVELLING My Maugham Award 250 The Back of Beyond 252 Triple Flavour 256 Wet Dream City 259 A Petrified Harvest 264 Bread on Still Waters 269 Munch and Antibiotics 274 Constructing an Australia 279 JAPAN Tokyo Pastoral 283 People as Pictures 287 Mishima's Toy Sword 292 Once More into the Mangle 299 Poor Butterfly 304 Death in Japan 310 A Fertility Festival 314 Murasaki Shibiku: The Tale of Genji 320 Ian Buruma: A Japanese Mirror 323 Junichiro Tanizaki: Naomi 326 AMERIKA Tom Wolfe 331 That Arizona Home 336 Snow-Belt America 341 The Rise of the Preppies 346 Anne Campbell: The Girls in the Gang 350 Edmund White: The Beautiful Room is Empty 353 LOOKING Animalia At the Zoo 359 Animals in the Nursery 364 In the Bear Garden 368 Little Lamb, Get Lost 373 All Creatures Great and Small 378 Song and Show Now is the Time for Singing 383 Bob Dylan on Tour 394 A Busker (Retired) 396 The Good Old Songs 400 Giants' Playtime 405 Wagner and the Mistral 409 Fun Fairs 414 Carlos Moore: Fela Fela 420 Phyllis Rose: Jazz Cleopatra 423 SCREEN AND DREAM Femmes Fatales 427 Japanese Erotica 432 Much, Much Stranger than Fiction 436 Bertolucci: La Luna 442 Hal Ashby: Being There 449 The Draughtsman's Contract 455 The Belle as Businessperson 461 Jean-Luc Godard 464 Robert Coover: A Night at the Movies 466 Hollywood 469 Barry Paris: Louise Brooks 472 In Pantoland 479 The Granada, Tooting 488 THE BOX Theatre of the Absurd 490 Acting It Up on the Small Screen 495 The Box Does Furnish a Room 500 Monkey Business 504 The Wonderful World of Cops 508 MAKING ART Berthold Hinz: Art in the Third Reich 513 Treasures of Ancient Nigeria 515 Artists of the Tudor Court 520 Pontus Hulten: The Arcimboldo Effect 525 Three Women Artists 527 Frida Kahlo 530 STORIES AND TELLERS Tell Me a Story Jorge Luis Borges: An Introduction to English Literature 539 The Hidden Child 543 The Art of Horrorzines 547 The Better to Eat You With 552 An I for Truth 557 Latin Rhythms 562 Yashar Kemal: The Lords of Akchasaz 564 William Burroughs: Ah Pook Is Here 566 William Burroughs: The Western Lands 567 The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm 569 The Sweet Smell of Romance 573 Robert Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre 578 Irish Folk Tales, Arab Folk Tales 582 Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines 585 Through a Text Backwards: The Resurrection of the House of Usher 589 Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars 599 Milorad Pavic: Landscape Painted with Tea 607 Writers and Readers Lorenzo the Closet-Queen 610 The Life of Katherine Mansfield 617 The Alchemy of the Word 620 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 627 Grace Paley: The Little Disturbances of Man and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute 631 Colette 634 Carol Ascher: Simone de Beauvoir 646 D.H. Lawrence, Scholarship Boy 649 Envoi: Bloomsday 655 Alison's Giggle 662 Trials of a Booker Judge 676 J.G. Ballard: Empire of the Sun 681 The End: Reading South Africa 688 Christina Stead 693 Vladimir Nabakov: The Enchanter 709 Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda 712 Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses 716 Love in a Cold Climate 718 Colin Greenland: Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle 733 Appendix: Introduction to Expletives Deleted 737 Editor's Note 743 Chronology of Journalism and Occasional Writings (1964-92) 745 Index 763