Books
Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two, by Gordon Brown
Getting the detail right
Evelyn Waugh told Nancy Mitford he was ‘surprised to find’ that Proust ‘was a mental defective. He has absolutely no sense of time.’
The misery of an intellectual
Reborn: Susan Sontag, Early Diaries, 1947-1964, edited by David Rieff
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir, by David Rieff
Arts
A pair of aces
William Cook talks to the creators of some of TV’s funniest and best-loved comedy programmes
Quality treat
The Diary of Anne Frank (BBC1, Monday to Friday); Oz and James Drink to Britain (BBC2, Tuesday)
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The natural order of things
Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts
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Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ
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