Books
Dizzy with devotion
The long, happy and unlikely marriage of the great Conservative leader Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne, 12 years his…
Silent knight
In February 1861 a 21-year-old French medievalist called Paul Meyer walked into Sotheby’s auction house near Covent Garden. He had…
‘J’adore Michel’
News of Michel Houllebecq’s Soumission caused such a stir that the book was pirated online before publication. David Sexton reports on the latest literary event in France
Title Stories: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Finding the key to life
Which of us, as an adolescent, did not experience at some point a terrible sense of not belonging? Which of…
A master of plein-airism
‘If I see something I like I wish to tell someone else; this… is why I paint.’ Patrick George is…
Books and arts
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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…
Pearls before swine
Philip Hensher bewails the current neglect of the short story, especially in the British literary press
When my enemy’s enemy is still my enemy
‘I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.’ When ‘The…
Peeking into the seraglio
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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Dirty white gold
If not for cotton, we would still be wearing wool. To equal current cotton production, we would need seven billion…
A great visual sermon
In 1439 Abraham of Souzdal, a Russian bishop visiting Florence, was in the audience in Santa Maria del Carmine for…
Beautiful dreamer
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…
A cold coming
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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Of cabbages and kings
Nigel Jones reviews the first five titles to appear in a new series on British monarchs
