Henry's Saturday Miscellany

When bitchiness passed for intellect: the feuding glitterati of the 1960s. Gore Vidal here. William Buckley here.

• The Trollope bicentennial prompts an Irish Times reappraisal of the English writer who spent twenty of his 67 years on the Emerald Isle.

• The Economist considers the love-hate relationship between the American Congress and the National Mall, increasingly the victim of financial neglect and increasingly tawdry, eccentric, interest-group driven monuments.

• Why does Jabberwocky work?