Books
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
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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
Tricks of the trade
The American comic novel is going through an odd phase. Just lately it seems like anything funny must sneak in…
Words to savour
Although entitled Infidelities this collection of short stories could as well be called Choices, because that is what really preoccupies…
Dead poets’ society
In December 1817 Benjamin Robert Haydon — vivid diarist and painter of huge but inferior canvases of historic events —…
A clown on crystal meth
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, Mark Steyn is sort of a hairy, successful version of me—…
Three men, two men, one man and his dog…
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
Answers to ‘Spot the Booker Prize Winners’
1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002) 2. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998) 3. The Sea, The Sea by…
Answers to ‘Spot the Booker Prize Winners’
1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002) 2. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998) 3. The Sea, The Sea by…
Send in the clowns
Nell Gifford joins a colourful troupe of acrobats, contortionists, lion-tamers, freaks and funambulists
Pure Alice in Wonderland
Incredulity is rarely a word that crosses my mind when it comes to garden writing. This genre can, of course,…
Powerful pathos
The impersonator — Rory Bremner, Steve Coogan — speaks, in different voices, to a single primitive pleasure centre in his…
Older and wiser after the storm
The story of Frank Bascombe, a sports-writer turned estate agent but always a New Jersey homebody, has already taken Richard…
