Even with compulsory daily readings of Oscar Wilde, it is hard to rid Americans of the prejudice that there is something admirable about what you see being what you get.

Terry Eagleton on Americans and their complicated relationship with irony.  

Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America is in stores now.

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