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Saturday 17 May 2008

Spectator 180th Anniversary Blog
 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


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

That sweet city

Michael Beloff

9th April, 2008

This Secret Garden: Oxford Revisited by Justin Cartwright

The best possible ragbag

8th April, 2008

Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage

Out of puff

Alexander Chancellor

9th April, 2008

The Last Cigarette: The Smoking Diaries, Volume III by Simon Gray

The magic lingers on

Simon Baker

8th April, 2008

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

The solitary New York Jew

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

8th April, 2008

Alfred Kazin by Richard M. Cook

No need to panic — probably

Graham Stewart

8th April, 2008

An Appeal to Reason by Nigel Lawson

Salt of the earth

Nicholas Haslam

8th April, 2008

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews

A load of hot air

Tim Congdon

8th April, 2008

Common Wealth by Jeffrey Sachs

An assault upon relativism

Edward Norman

8th April, 2008

Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI by Tracey Rowland

Blood will out

Andrew Barrow

8th April, 2008

Lies and Loyalties by Rachel Billington

Paying the price of peace

Dean Godson

8th April, 2008

Great Hatred, Little Room by Jonathan Powell

A mask that eats the face

Sebastian Smee

1st April, 2008

The World Is What It Is by Patrick French

Flies on the wall

Philip Ziegler

1st April, 2008

I Wish I’d Been There by edited by Byron Holinshead and Theodore K. Rabb

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