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Saturday 11 October 2008

 

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Michael Henderson

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Correction

9th January, 2008

Omissions and admissions

Philip Hensher

9th January, 2008

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by by Pierre Bayard, translated by Geoffrey Mehlman

An abstract debate

Carole Angier

9th January, 2008

Homecoming by by Bernhard Schlink

The king of peace

Philip Mansel

9th January, 2008

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by by Avi Shlaim

By so many, to so few

Christopher Howse

9th January, 2008

A Blogger’s Manifesto by by Eric Ringmar

Too much zeal

Graham Stewart

2nd January, 2008

Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming by Christopher Booker and Richard North

Smitten for life

Simon Baker

2nd January, 2008

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

Growing old gracefully

Anne Chisholm

2nd January, 2008

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Undoing the folded lie

Grey Gowrie

2nd January, 2008

A New Waste Land by Michael Horowitz

From one extreme to the other

Jonathan Sumption

2nd January, 2008

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed by Martin Evans and John Phillips

Going on and on

2nd January, 2008

My Life by Fidel Castro

Always on the side of the wolf

Carole Angier

2nd January, 2008

It was the Nightingale by Ford Maddox

When the sun finally set

Margaret MacMillan

11th December, 2007

The Raj Quartet 1: The Jewel in the Crown, A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott, introduced by Hilary Spurling

A Christmas Song

11th December, 2007

A poem

Kit Wright

11th December, 2007

Kit Wright

From Charles Lamb to ‘netiquette’

John Gross

11th December, 2007

At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman

More marks on paper

Victoria Glendinning

11th December, 2007

The Writer’s Brush by Donald Friedman

A poem

Greta Stoddart

11th December, 2007

Greta Stoddart

A Poem

Vernon Scannell

11th December, 2007

Vernon Scannell

Perfecting the art of rudeness

Roger Lewis

11th December, 2007

Fawlty Towers by Graham McCann

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