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Thursday 4 December 2008

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Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson suggests


Were we any better than the Nazis?

Sam Leith

23rd April, 2008

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker

A masterpiece of boyhood recalled

Andrew Linklater

23rd April, 2008

Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman

Wilful destruction of a world wonder

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

23rd April, 2008

Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming

Growing up in no man’s land

Zenga Longmore

23rd April, 2008

The Making of Mr Hai’s Daughter: Becoming British by Yasmin Hai

More mayoral election fever

Claudia FitzHerbert

23rd April, 2008

Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman

A working-class villain

Leo McKinstry

23rd April, 2008

Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone by Andrew Hosken

What we lost last summer

William Brett

23rd April, 2008

Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn

Children of a genius

Allan Massie

23rd April, 2008

In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain by Andrea Weiss

Blood on their hands

David Pryce-Jones

23rd April, 2008

A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Carole Seymour-Jones

Between deference and insolence

Theodore Dalrymple

23rd April, 2008

The Disrespect Agenda: Or How the Wrong Kind of Niceness is Making Us Weak and Unhappy by Lincoln Allison

A radical, pantheistic nationalist

Patrick Marnham

16th April, 2008

Diego Rivera: The Complete Murals by Edited by Luis-Martin Lozano and Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera

A boy’s own world

Simon Baker

16th April, 2008

Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones

The dying of the light

Clare Asquith

16th April, 2008

The Last Office by Geoffrey Moorhouse

House of horrors

Andrew Taylor

16th April, 2008

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

A choice of first novels

Archie Bland

16th April, 2008

Archie Bland picks out some recent first novels

Best of British?

Lloyd Evans

16th April, 2008

Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Amy Raphael

Firing the youthful imagination

Nicolas Barker

16th April, 2008

British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War by Owen Dudley Edwards

Open to the world?

Allan Massie

16th April, 2008

Allan Massie draws a distinction between open and self-enclosed novels

Several careers open to talent

Douglas Hurd

9th April, 2008

Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount

Too much remembrance of things past

Molly Guinness

9th April, 2008

Remember Me . . . by Melvyn Bragg

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