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Saturday 30 August 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


The peculiarities of a realist

Philip Hensher

27th August, 2008

Fine just the way it is: Wyoming stories by Annie Proulx

Will he, won’t He?

Alexander Waugh

27th August, 2008

Ararat by Frank Westerman, translated by Sam Garrett

On a wing and a prayer

Byron Rogers

27th August, 2008

The Balloon Factory by Alexander Frater

Worldly and otherworldly

James Buchan

27th August, 2008

Stories by John Buchan, selected and introduced by Giles Foden

A new angle on autism

Charlotte Moore

27th August, 2008

Unstrange Minds by Roy Richard Grinker

Like father like son

Tom Holland

27th August, 2008

Phillip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington

Who is selling what to whom?

Justin Cartwright

27th August, 2008

Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising by Winston Fletcher

The end of Eden

Fraser Nelson

27th August, 2008

Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared by Andrew Brown

Night thoughts in an unhappy home

John de Falbe

27th August, 2008

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

On home ground

Neil Clark

27th August, 2008

Neil Clark on Cyril Hare’s Tragedy at Law, first published in 1942.

Our modest contribution

Raymond Carr

20th August, 2008

St Petersburg and the British: The City Through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents by Anthony Cross

His finest hour

Michael Howard

20th August, 2008

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John Lukacs

Muddying the waters

Sebastian Smee

20th August, 2008

Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks

The Circus

20th August, 2008

The Circus by Noel Daniel

Really not happy at all

Marcus Berkmann

20th August, 2008

Bits of Me are Falling Apart by William Leith

In his own words

Bryan Forbes

20th August, 2008

Ever Dirk: The Bogarde Letters edited by John Coldstream

The great deception continues

Jonathan Mirsky

20th August, 2008

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of New China by Philip Pan

Life and Letters

Allan Massie

20th August, 2008

Allan Massie remembers Simon Gray (1936-2008)

Do tell me some more about Devonshire

Jeremy Treglown

13th August, 2008

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald by Terence Dooley (editor)

Speaking for the silent majority

George Osborne

13th August, 2008

Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Going through the hoops

Patrick Skene Catling

13th August, 2008

Dreaming Iris by John de Falbe

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