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Saturday 17 May 2008

Spectator 180th Anniversary Blog
 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


Small elephant at Dove Cottage

Victoria Glendinning

27th February, 2008

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson

Plunging into the hurly-burly

Rupert Christiansen

27th February, 2008

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

Power to the people

Robert Stewart

27th February, 2008

God’s Fury, England’s Fire by Michael Braddick

The return of Kureishi-man

D.J. Taylor

27th February, 2008

Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

An appeal from beyond the grave

Richard Beeston

27th February, 2008

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto

Eye of newt and toe of frog aplenty

Mark Fisher

27th February, 2008

Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

A time for resolutions

Allan Massie

27th February, 2008

Allan Massie on how book-lovers can cope with waning concentration

Recent crime novels

Andrew Taylor

20th February, 2008

Andrew Taylor reviews several recent crime novels

Brave enough to say no

Gerard Noel

20th February, 2008

We Will Not Fight: The Untold Story of World War One’s Conscientious Objectors by Will Ellsworth-Jones

Earning an easy chair

Anthony Sattin

20th February, 2008

Going As Far As I Can by Duncan Fallowell

Creating a climate of fear

Sam Leith

20th February, 2008

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh

Too clever for her own good

Claire Tomalin

20th February, 2008

Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke

Sins of omission

Alberto Manguel

20th February, 2008

My Unwritten Books by George Steiner

The strange experience of England

A. N. Wilson

13th February, 2008

Powys and Emma Goldman: The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman by edited by David Goodway

The slave in the next room

Charlotte Moore

13th February, 2008

Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore

All at sea in Shanghai

Olivia Cole

13th February, 2008

My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons

Not under the volcano

Ian Thomson

13th February, 2008

The Voyage that Never Ends by edited by Michael Hoffmann

Winner by a nose

Blair Worden

13th February, 2008

Cyrano by Ishbel Addyman

Triumph of the little ships

Michael Rose

13th February, 2008

Gunboat Command: The Biography of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO, DSC, RNVR by Antony Hichens

Grace under pressure

Richard Briand

13th February, 2008

The Race by Richard North Patterson

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