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Thursday 16 October 2008

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Books

A choice of crime novels

Name to a Face (Bantam, £14.99) is Robert Goddard’s 19th novel. With characteristic brio, he combines the Black Death, the...

Faith in the Founding Fathers

The American Future, by Simon Schama

First knight and his lady

A Strange, Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families, by Michael Holroyd

Life & Letters

Allan Massies dips into Brideshead Revisited

For old times’ sake

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros Story, by Richard Schickel and George Perry

Arts

Handel’s oddity

Partenope
English National Opera

A man apart

The great days of cinema are not over: they live on in Terence Davies, writes Peter Hoskin

Books

The spectre of Spielberg

Searching for Schindler, by Thomas Keneally

Great expectations dashed

Origins: A Memoir, by Amin Maalouf, translated by Catherine Temerson

Style & Travel

Classics of the subcontinent

Exuberant displays of wealth give a hint of India’s future, says Charlotte Metcalf

Oh, Kolkata!

The real adventure of India is to be found in the cities, writes A.A. Gill

Brown must stop sounding like a sore winner

The Prime Minister has triumphed for now with his grand rescue plan, says Irwin Stelzer. But that is no reason to blame the crisis on America. It may be a reason for an early election

Irwin Stelzer

My real focus group scorned climate change

James Delingpole asks second world war re-enactors what they think of the green agenda: the answer is very different to the consensus around the pine tables of metropolitan London

James Delingpole

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