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In a world of their own
Cilla Black has become a strange creature during her 50 years in showbiz. When her husband Bobby was in hospital…
Books and arts
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As No Art Is
The weekend’s on us, and no means of soothing it or kissing it away. The flat facades of mansion blocks…
Goodwill to Men
Overheard in advent was this complaint of a bus driver to a passenger, ‘Don’t call me brother! We’re not of…
Title Stories: The Woman in White
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Goodwill to Men
Overheard in advent was this complaint of a bus driver to a passenger, ‘Don’t call me brother! We’re not of…
Title Stories: The Woman in White
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Bitter, dark and beautiful
Sarah Churchwell on how Eugene O’Neill virtually single-handedly revolutionised American theatre in the first half of the 20th century
Clubs, but no heart
Bill Shankly, the manager of Liverpool FC in the club’s halcyon days of the1960s and 1970s, once said: ‘Football isn’t…
The ‘Killer’ at large
‘I ain’t never pretended to be anything,’ says the man they call the Killer. ‘I’ve lived my life to the…
Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
A multi-talented musician
On 17 May 1969 Leonard Bernstein ended his 12-year run as musical director of the New York Philharmonic with a…
A choice of cookery books
The people behind the people are the ones to watch for, and we have all been waiting for a book…
Struggling to keep up
Paul Fournel is a novelist, former publisher and French cultural attaché in London, and the provisionally definitive secretary and president…
No call a man dead til you bury him
Death is big business in parts of the Caribbean. In the Jamaican capital of Kingston, funeral homes with their plastic…
All money is in cyberspace anyway
Bitcoins are digital money ‘mined’ from satanically difficult mathematical problems. Madness, obviously. But five years ago, while the rest of…
Skirmishes on the home front
You might be forgiven for thinking that there is no need for yet another book about Margot Asquith. Her War…
Language
And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…
Algerian dystopia
On the surface Harraga is the story of two ill-matched women colliding dramatically, with life-changing consequences. What emerges, in throwaway…
From patient to doctor
Sabina Spielrein was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with groundbreaking ideas about the role of the reproductive drive in human psychology…
Title Stories: Utopia by Thomas More
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The daily grind of the hunter-gather
In the early days of Victorian railways, train journeys were (rightly) considered so dangerous that ticket offices sold life insurance…
First Day of Spring in Bath
Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering: Faux fanes in gardens, Nash and Wesley’s shades, Gold, gaily weighty houses, rocketing sky,…
Shock jock
A senior Minister in the NSW government of John Fahey once told me that there was a vacant metaphorical chair…
