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Thursday 24 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


A monkey business

James Robertson

23rd July, 2008

Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer by by David Boyd Haycock

Deluded and abandoned

Anne Applebaum

23rd July, 2008

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by by Tim Tzouliadis Little, Brown, £25, pp. 472, ISBN 9781594201684

The stuff of legends

Christopher Ondaatje

23rd July, 2008

The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov (translated by William Hobson)

Hope born of fantasy

Molly Guinness

23rd July, 2008

Little Marvel and Other Stories by Wendy Perriam

The pity of it

P.J. Kavanagh

23rd July, 2008

In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric

They are made a spectacle unto the world

Michael Beloff

23rd July, 2008

The First London Olympics: 1908 by Rebecca Jenkins

The death of the novel

Allan Massie

23rd July, 2008

Allan Massie investigates whether the novel has died

Through the keyhole

William Leith

16th July, 2008

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Goslingby

Flowers of Scotland

Dinah Roe

16th July, 2008

The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah

The Pope was wrong

Andrew Roberts

16th July, 2008

Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler by Gerard Noel

Short and sweet

Andrew Roberts

16th July, 2008

Txting: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal

A lost painting in a crumbling mansion

Olivia Glazebrook

16th July, 2008

The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry

No denying it

Alberto Manguel

16th July, 2008

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

A hostage to fortune

Jonathan Keates

16th July, 2008

One Morning in Sarajevo by David James Smith

The house that Jock built

James Fergusson

16th July, 2008

The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter, edited by Candida Brazil and James Hamilton

A Soho stalwart

Francis King

16th July, 2008

Selected Letters by by Julian Maclaren-Ross, edited by Paul Willetts

Last tales from the West

Sam Leith

9th July, 2008

The Lost Decade, Short Stories from Esquire, 1936-1941 by F. Scott Fitzgerald (edited by James L.W. West III)

A little goes a long way

Andro Linklater

9th July, 2008

The Importance of Being Trivial by by Mark Mason

Cheap and deadly

Jonathan Mirsky

9th July, 2008

The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney

Another tragic Russian heroine

Simon Baker

9th July, 2008

Sashenka by Simon Montefiore

The sins of the son

Raymond Carr

9th July, 2008

The Assassin’s Accomplice by by Kate Clifford Larson

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