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Title Stories: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
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Left
Who is there left that you can talk to? Days go by. ‘Friendless, deserted’ (The Beggar’s Opera?) — left in…
Out of Reach
Think of a hand-slip, a spun summit bothered by mist, the whirr and thrum of dark metals, a stranded face…
Title Stories: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
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Is there anything left to say about Queen Victoria? A.N. Wilson has found plenty
A new, revisionist biography argues that it was only after her husband’s death that Queen Victoria found her true self. Jane Ridley is impressed
The forgotten flank of the forgotten corps of the Forgotten Army
The British who fought in Burma became known as the ‘Forgotten Army’ because this was a neglected theatre of the…
How on earth did David Mitchell's third-rate fantasy make the Man Booker longlist?
Reincarnation has hovered over David Mitchell’s novels since the birth of his remarkable career. His haunting debut novel, Ghostwritten (1999),…
Enjoy gin but don’t read books? Or read them only while drinking gin? This is the book for you
Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London is a jaunty and diverting history of ‘a wonderful…
A book about human nature that makes your head spin – in a good way
Vincent Deary is a therapist, and this book is the first part of a trilogy. How We Are is about…
Owen Jones’s new book should be called The Consensus: And How I Want to Change it
Owen Jones’s first book, Chavs, was a political bestseller. This follow-up skips over the middle classes and goes to the…
Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Improbable, unconvincing and lazy - Ian McEwan’s latest is unforgivable
The Children Act could hardly be more attuned to the temper of the times, appearing just as our newspapers are…
The Indian lady at the chemist
I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…
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The Indian lady at the chemist
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
The post Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appeared first on The Spectator. Got something…
The Indian lady at the chemist
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
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Germans see the best of their soul in Weimar. Everyone else, on the other hand..
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
A few years ago, after a lifetime of wearing white shirts through which the straps of my white bra were…
Like a Prayer
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
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
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Ali Smith's How to be Both: warm, funny, subtle, intelligent – and baffling
Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…
The real Dad’s Army was no joke
Dad’s Army, the sitcom to end all sitcoms, portrayed the Home Guard as often doddery veterans. In one episode, Private…
