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The unwilling executioner

Carole Angier

5th February, 2008

Detective Story by Imre Kertész

Genius under many guises

Patrick Skene Catling

5th February, 2008

The Complete Novels by Flann O’Brien, with an introduction by Keith Donohue

Our deadliest secret

M. R. D. Foot

5th February, 2008

Cabinets and the Bomb by Peter Hennessy

The vile behaviour of the press

Peter Oborne

30th January, 2008

Flat Earth News by Nick Davies

A very vicious circle

Jervoise Andreyev

30th January, 2008

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis

Daring to defy the myth

Justin Cartwright

30th January, 2008

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz

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

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