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Title Stories: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Title Stories: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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‘J’adore Michel’
Michel Houellebecq’s sixth novel, imagining an Islamic government taking power in France in 2022, has been widely assumed to be…
‘J’adore Michel’
Michel Houellebecq’s sixth novel, imagining an Islamic government taking power in France in 2022, has been widely assumed to be…
The short story in Britain today: enough to make Conan Doyle weep
Philip Hensher bewails the current neglect of the short story, especially in the British literary press
Cowboys and Muslims: that’s the new global power struggle, according to the latest great American novel
‘I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.’ When ‘The…
Bish bash Bosphorus: Elif Shafak’s saga of love and death in Istanbul is crammed with incident on every page
If you like to curl up by the fire with a proper, old-fashioned, saga-style tale about a boy and his…
Title stories: The moon and sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
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The turbulent reign of King Cotton: the dark history of one of the world’s most important commodities
If not for cotton, we would still be wearing wool. To equal current cotton production, we would need seven billion…
The hidden history of one of the greatest treasures of the early Renaissance: Florence’s Brancacci chapel
In 1439 Abraham of Souzdal, a Russian bishop visiting Florence, was in the audience in Santa Maria del Carmine for…
Rugger, Robin Hood and Rupert of the Rhine: enthusiasms of the young Antonia Fraser
Despite it being a well known fact that Antonia Fraser had earthly parents, I had always imagined that she had…
Black Knight
A few forgotten objects Dad passed on: copperplate pens with long nail nibs, still stained black, one coal-fire red, laid…
This Winter Journey goes far beyond expectation
You can tell a lot about a book from its bibliography. It’s the non-fiction equivalent of skipping to the final…
Black Knight
A few forgotten objects Dad passed on: copperplate pens with long nail nibs, still stained black, one coal-fire red, laid…
Title stories: The moon and sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
The post Title stories: The moon and sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to…
Black Knight
A few forgotten objects Dad passed on: copperplate pens with long nail nibs, still stained black, one coal-fire red, laid…
Title stories: The moon and sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
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Game of thrones: five kings spanning five centuries launch a new series on royalty
Nigel Jones reviews the first five titles to appear in a new series on British monarchs
Fact, fiction or farce? The American comic novel is becoming increasingly hard to define
The American comic novel is going through an odd phase. Just lately it seems like anything funny must sneak in…
Stories about storytelling: Kirsty Gunn’s preoccupation with words is utterly entrancing
Although entitled Infidelities this collection of short stories could as well be called Choices, because that is what really preoccupies…
Sunday roasts and beaded bubbles: dining with the poets
In December 1817 Benjamin Robert Haydon — vivid diarist and painter of huge but inferior canvases of historic events —…
Mark Steyn: a hairy, successful version of myself, says Julie Burchill
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, Mark Steyn is sort of a hairy, successful version of me—…
Touring America in Steinbeck’s footsteps
In 1960 John Steinbeck set off with his poodle Charley to drive around the United States in a truck equipped…
Answers to ‘Spot the Booker Prize Winners’
by Simon Drew
