Orwell on trial

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The UK government sent a former girlfriend of Orwell's to the writer's deathbed to ask him to name Communist sympathizers. The individuals Orwell, an anti-Communist, discussed were all public figures. Orwell, who was not a McCarthyite, said nothing he had not said in public.

Author: Hitchens, Christopher
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1996
Authors, Writers, Behavior, Biography, Orwell, George

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Signature Sontag

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Writer Susan Sontag claims to get new ideas for novels on a daily basis, with ideas obtained from obscure sources, such as browsing through biographies. She amalgamated three ideas for her work 'In America,' due for release in March 2000. A profile of Sontag is presented.

Author: Hitchens, Christopher
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 2000
Interview, Women writers, Women authors, Sontag, Susan

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Thunder in the Black Mountains

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The small, fierce republic of Montenegro is the last Balkan country to remain part of Slobodan Milosevic's Greater Serbia. It now seeks independence. Montenegro, whose name means Black Mountain, may be the site of the final Milosevic wars, after Bosnia and Kosovo.

Author: Hitchens, Christopher
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1999
Yugoslavia, Political aspects, National liberation movements, Self-determination, National, National self determination, Republics, Montenegro

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