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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 slice off the top

D.R. Thorpe

13th February, 2008

The Carlton Club, 1832-2007 by Sir Charles Petrie and Alistair Cooke

Dial M for mother

Caroline Moore

13th February, 2008

His Illegal Self by Peter Carey

The son of Mann

Allan Massie

13th February, 2008

Allan Massie on the journals of Klaus Mann

A crash course in survival

Philip Hensher

5th February, 2008

Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard

God and the GOM

Jane Ridley

5th February, 2008

Gladstone: God and Politics by Richard Shannon

Getting a kick

Nicholas Haslam

5th February, 2008

Ethel Merman by Geoffrey Mark

Problems of keeping mum

Molly Guinness

5th February, 2008

Grandmother’s Footsteps by Charlotte Moore

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

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