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Saturday 17 May 2008

Spectator 180th Anniversary Blog
 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


Not a decent book

Sam Leith

14th May, 2008

Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations by Neil Powell

Not a decent book

But what about justice, fairness and honesty?

Alan Judd

14th May, 2008

On Human Rights by James Griffin

Two were barking

Cressida Connolly

14th May, 2008

The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn

Through Western eyes

Ian Garrick Mason

14th May, 2008

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West by Anthony Pagden

Cities of the coast

Jonathan Keates

14th May, 2008

The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy. Volume I: Alexandria by Nicholas Woodsworth

The robots are coming

John Mitchell

14th May, 2008

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

Poles apart

John McEwen

14th May, 2008

Art in Exile: Polish Painters in Post-War Britain by Douglas Hall

1968 and all that

Allan Massie

14th May, 2008

Allan Massie remembers 1968

The making of modern myths

Jonathan Mirsky

7th May, 2008

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt

Doctoring the record

Jane Ridley

7th May, 2008

Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt (translated by Harry Watson)

Not the marrying type

Matthew Dennison

7th May, 2008

The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby

Cries and whispers

Andrew Taylor

7th May, 2008

Revelation by C. J. Sansom

Through Levantine eyes

Philip Mansel

7th May, 2008

Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 by Giles Milton

Lust in a hot climate

Sara Wheeler

7th May, 2008

The Bolter by Frances Osborne

Coming up trumps

Martin Davies

7th May, 2008

Playing Cards in Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles

At her most disarming

Byron Rogers

7th May, 2008

Halfway to Venus by Sarah Anderson

Dramatic thrills and chills

Sarah Burton

7th May, 2008

Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre, 1970-2008 by Michael Frayn

Grace under fire

Stanley Johnson

7th May, 2008

The Glenthorne Cat and Other Amazing Leopard Stories by Christopher Ondaatje (Editor)

Llamas but no locals

P.J. Kavanagh

7th May, 2008

The Lost Village by Richard Askwith

Howling to the moon

Jerome de Groot

30th April, 2008

Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (translated by Howard Goldblatt)

A career in the West

Oliver Gilmour

30th April, 2008

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1915-1922, Volume II: Behind the Mask by Anthony Phillips (translator)

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