Books

Title Stories: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18 October 2014 9:00 am

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Lazarus is back

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Australia’s Ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley, still quips that John Winston Howard is his nemesis. This does not…

The Irony of Wislava Szymborska

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

In London, I remember the indignation.    Surely the Nobel prize should have gone to Zbigniew Herbert, the Polish poet we…

Title Stories: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

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The Irony of Wislava Szymborska

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

In London, I remember the indignation.    Surely the Nobel prize should have gone to Zbigniew Herbert, the Polish poet we…

Title Stories: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

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Two small children dying together in the gutter in the Chinese famine of 1946

How Hitler's dreams came true in 1946

11 October 2014 9:00 am

In 1946, in the aftermath of a devastating war, the world seemed a very dark place indeed, says Sam Leith

An epic performance that brings a lost novelist back to life

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Hugh Walpole, now almost forgotten, was a literary giant. Descended from the younger brother of the 18th-century prime minister Robert…

To be astonished by nature, look no further than Claxton

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Mark Cocker is the naturalist writer of the moment, with birds his special subject. His previous book, Birds and People,…

Imagine Eastenders directed by David Lynch

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Ghostly doings are afoot in Edwardian London. Choking fog rolls over the treacle- black Thames. Braziers cast eerie shadows in…

Shackleton’s ship the Nimrod in the ice at McMurdo Sound

Flawed, unproductive and heroic: the real Ernest Shackleton

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Polar explorers are often cast as mavericks, and this is hardly surprising. The profession requires a disdain for pseudo-orthodoxies and,…

A jaunty romp of rape and pillage through the 16th century

11 October 2014 9:00 am

The Brethren, by Robert Merle, who died at the age of 95 ten years ago, was originally published in 1977,…

The young T.E. Lawrence in Arab dress

Secretive, arrogant and reckless: the young T.E. Lawrence began life as he meant to go on

11 October 2014 9:00 am

The Lawrence books are piling up, aren’t they? I don’t mean the author of The Rainbow, though as I write…

Title Stories: My Man Jeeves By P.G. Wodehouse

11 October 2014 9:00 am

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Wave goodbye to the weight-gaining, drunk-driving Inspector Wallander

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Some years ago I met the Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell at the Savoy Hotel in London, where he was…

Hercule Poirot returns – and yes, he’s as irritating as ever

11 October 2014 9:00 am

First, a confession. I have never cared much for Hercule Poirot. In this I am not alone, for his creator…

The remains of the column of St Simeon Stylites at Qalat Sem’an, Syria.

The Guru of Late Antiquity speaks again

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Nearly 50 years ago we made our way into an inner place, a semi-subterranean room, in a peculiar college. A…

James Ellroy’s latest attempt to unseat the Great American Novel

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Aficionados of detective fiction have long known that the differences between the soft- and hard-boiled school are so profound that,…

Burying the dead of Waterloo

Narrative history at its best – and bloodiest

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Anyone thinking of bringing out a book on Waterloo at the moment must be very confident, very brave or just…

A compendium to match Radio 4: boring, but somehow gripping

11 October 2014 9:00 am

When you think about it, Radio 4 is mostly a pile of old toss. Money Box qualifies as an anaesthetic,…

History Parade

11 October 2014 9:00 am

We left the Scout hut shortly after dark, to ambush regulars acting as invaders. Later, there was to be a…

New symbols of kingship in the world of late antiquity: the votive crown of the Visigothic king Recceswinth, 653–72

Books and arts

11 October 2014 9:00 am

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In the big chair

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Even those of us of a conservative bent hoped that the election of the Rudd government in 2007 would constitute…

History Parade

9 October 2014 2:00 pm

We left the Scout hut shortly after dark, to ambush regulars acting as invaders. Later, there was to be a…

Title Stories: My Man Jeeves By P.G. Wodehouse

9 October 2014 2:00 pm

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