Sunday 20 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

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Clemency Burton-Hill

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Books

Alan Judd reads James Griffin's account of human rights

A Soho stalwart

A Soho stalwart

Like Angus Wilson, Julian Maclaren-Ross immediately grabbed the attention of Forties reviewers and readers with a series of short stories...

The house that Jock built

The house that Jock built

James Fergusson reviews a history of the publishers John Murray

A hostage to fortune

Jonathan Keates on a comprehensive study of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

No denying it

Alberto Manguel on Helen Garner's new novel

Arts

Perfect prose

National Short Story Award (Radio 4)

Wasted journey

Free Outgoing (Royal Court), Fanshen (295 Regent St), Frozen (Riverside)

Books

A lost painting in a crumbling mansion

Olivia Glazebrook on a new work of art fiction

Short and sweet

Short and sweet

Lloyd Evans on the great texting debate

Style & Travel

Club class

Club class

Julia Hollander leaves her hair shirt at the departure gate

A honeymoon on horseback

Olivia Glazebrook and her husband brave the Jordanian wilderness

In this week's issue

If the liberal press is to be believed, nobody has ever been stabbed — ever

Rod Liddle imagines the hoodie at home, allegedly innocent of any wicked intent, arming himself with a Stanley knife only because of the supposed alarmism of the right-wing media

Rod Liddle

Big Brother versus YouTube: let the Beijing Games commence

Mark Leonard, Britain’s pre-eminent analyst of modern China, says the Olympic genie is out of the bottle. The prospect of global scrutiny has actually increased repression as the authorities try to stamp out dissent. But digital technology is impossible to police

Mark Leonard

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