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Saturday 17 May 2008

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The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


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

Defender, though not of the faith

Philip Hensher

16th January, 2008

The Second Plane by Martin Amis

Gossip from Lamb House

Jonathan Mirsky

16th January, 2008

Henry James’s Waistcoat: Letters to Mrs Ford, 1907-1915 by Foreword by Philip Horne, edited by Rosalind Bleach

Jealous neighbourhood watch

M. R. D. Foot

16th January, 2008

The Hunt for Nazi Spies by Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi

Too much in Arcadia

Blair Worden

16th January, 2008

Earls of Paradise by Adam Nicolson

Vagabonds in Paris

Anita Brookner

16th January, 2008

Dans le Café de la Jeunnesse Perdue by Patrick Modiano

Would they have ended up grumpy old men?

Allan Massie

9th January, 2008

Allan Massie wonders what would have happened to those who died young in their old age

Correction

9th January, 2008

Omissions and admissions

Philip Hensher

9th January, 2008

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by by Pierre Bayard, translated by Geoffrey Mehlman

An abstract debate

Carole Angier

9th January, 2008

Homecoming by by Bernhard Schlink

The king of peace

Philip Mansel

9th January, 2008

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by by Avi Shlaim

By so many, to so few

Christopher Howse

9th January, 2008

A Blogger’s Manifesto by by Eric Ringmar

Too much zeal

Graham Stewart

2nd January, 2008

Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming by Christopher Booker and Richard North

Smitten for life

Simon Baker

2nd January, 2008

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

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