Books

The Indian lady at the chemist

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…

Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

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The Indian lady at the chemist

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…

Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

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A romanticised portrait of Goethe by J.H.W. Tischbein

Germans see the best of their soul in Weimar. Everyone else, on the other hand..

30 August 2014 9:00 am

For centuries hailed as the home of poetry, music and liberalism, Weimar was ruthlessly exploited by the Nazis and later served as a showcase for communism, says Philip Hensher

This thriller is as good as anything by Hilary Mantel

30 August 2014 9:00 am

A few years ago, after a lifetime of wearing white shirts through which the straps of my white bra were…

Like a Prayer

30 August 2014 9:00 am

The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…

Peter Levi – poet, priest and life-enhancer

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Hilaire Belloc was once being discussed on some television programme. One of the panellists was Peter Levi. The other critics…

Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

30 August 2014 9:00 am

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Ali Smith's How to be Both: warm, funny, subtle, intelligent – and baffling

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…

A member of the London Home Guard demonstrates the use of old wallpaper as camouflage (1942)

The real Dad’s Army was no joke

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Dad’s Army, the sitcom to end all sitcoms, portrayed the Home Guard as often doddery veterans. In one episode, Private…

When boxing ruled the world

30 August 2014 9:00 am

The early 1970s was a good time for heavyweight boxing. Indeed, it was probably the last truly great age for…

‘Flying Rock’

Floating bodies, seeing hands, rippling skies - is Jerry Uelsmann’s photomontage a tragic dead-end?

30 August 2014 9:00 am

An untitled photograph by Jerry Uelsmann from 1991 shows a rock like Magritte’s floating in the sky between an Ansel…

In love with the lodger

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Champion Hill, Camberwell, 1922. A mother and daughter, stripped of their menfolk by the Great War, struggle to make ends…

‘La Guingette à Montmartre’ by Van Gogh (1886)

Exactly how much fun was it being an impoverished artist in Paris?

30 August 2014 9:00 am

What he really wanted, Picasso once remarked, was to live ‘like a pauper, but with plenty of money’. It sounds…

Kafka goes to Dubai

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘X’ is in ‘the Situation’: Joseph O’Neill, author of the clever and superb Netherland, hereby lets us know that his…

In defence of the Jacobins

30 August 2014 9:00 am

The French Revolution ushered in not only a revolution of rolling heads but of talking ones too. ‘Speech-making was a…

Books and arts

30 August 2014 9:00 am

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Thought bubbles

30 August 2014 9:00 am

It is not really a surprise that political parties produce a certain number of oddballs; the scary thing is that…

Like a Prayer

28 August 2014 1:00 pm

The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…

Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

28 August 2014 1:00 pm

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Like a Prayer

28 August 2014 1:00 pm

The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…

Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

28 August 2014 1:00 pm

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‘The Story’ by Dan Llywelyn Hall

Books and arts

23 August 2014 9:00 am

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The biography that makes Philip Larkin human again

23 August 2014 9:00 am

We needn’t apologise for Philip Larkin any longer, says Peter J. Conradi. His place is unmistakeably among the greats