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Saturday 17 May 2008

Spectator 180th Anniversary Blog
 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


A career in the West

Oliver Gilmour

30th April, 2008

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1915-1922, Volume II: Behind the Mask by Anthony Phillips (translator)

Last but not least

Robert Stewart

30th April, 2008

Catherine Parr: Henry VIII’s Last Love by Susan James

Our new puppet-masters

Jonathan Sumption

30th April, 2008

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers by Misha Glenny

Fighting his corner

P.J. Kavanagh

30th April, 2008

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

The last laugh

Philip Hensher

30th April, 2008

Deaf Sentence by David Lodge

Recent crime novels

Andrew Taylor

30th April, 2008

Andrew Taylor's overview of recent crime novels

Ruling the waves

Philip Hensher

30th April, 2008

Breath by Tim Winton

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

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