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Champagne on dirty floorboards

Jane Rye

30th January, 2008

Lucian Freud by William Feaver

Spartans did it wearing cloaks

Jonathan Keates

30th January, 2008

The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson

A return to the grand themes

Raymond Carr

30th January, 2008

Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain by Wm. Roger Louis

Pulp fiction for the intelligent

S. E. G. Hopkin

30th January, 2008

The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock

A great writer and drinker

Sam Leith

23rd January, 2008

Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd

A stately progress

George Osborne

23rd January, 2008

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, Ascent, 1799-1851 by Angus Hawkins

Dangers of the group mentality

Alan Judd

23rd January, 2008

Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century by Marc Sageman

Let Joy be unconfined

Matthew d'Ancona

23rd January, 2008

Joy Division: Piece by Piece, Writing About Joy Division, 1977-2007 by Paul Morley

When pink was far from rosy

Judith Flanders

23rd January, 2008

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

The new arbiters of taste

John Martin Robinson

23rd January, 2008

Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 by James Stourton

Love among the journalists

John de Falbe

23rd January, 2008

We Are Now Beginning our Descent by James Meek

Remembering Hugh Massingberd

A.N. Wilson

23rd January, 2008

A. N. Wilson commemorates the life of the great journalist Hugh Massingberd 

Capturing the decade

D. J. Taylor

23rd January, 2008

Granta 100 by edited by William Boyd

Best or worst?

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

16th January, 2008

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time by by Bernard Wasserstein

Defender, though not of the faith

Philip Hensher

16th January, 2008

The Second Plane by Martin Amis

Gossip from Lamb House

Jonathan Mirsky

16th January, 2008

Henry James’s Waistcoat: Letters to Mrs Ford, 1907-1915 by Foreword by Philip Horne, edited by Rosalind Bleach

Jealous neighbourhood watch

M. R. D. Foot

16th January, 2008

The Hunt for Nazi Spies by Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi

Too much in Arcadia

Blair Worden

16th January, 2008

Earls of Paradise by Adam Nicolson

Vagabonds in Paris

Anita Brookner

16th January, 2008

Dans le Café de la Jeunnesse Perdue by Patrick Modiano

Would they have ended up grumpy old men?

Allan Massie

9th January, 2008

Allan Massie wonders what would have happened to those who died young in their old age

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