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Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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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…
Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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The paradigm of a poet
We needn’t apologise for Philip Larkin any longer, says Peter J. Conradi. His place is unmistakeably among the greats
An aura of sovereignty
For the last 50 years Americans have been decrying the increase of presidential power whenever the party they oppose is…
80 sq yds per gallon
Nothing brings him to the door quite as surely as Silexine Watertight, the complete waterproofer. One Imperial Quart. Opened this…
The Putney boy done good
The travel writer Colin Thubron once told me that to understand a country and its people he first asks, ‘What…
The mother of all problems
Nina Stibbe has a way with children. Her first book, a memoir, was a deceptively wide-eyed view of a literary…
That sinking feeling
When Napoleon Bonaparte captured Venice in 1797, he extinguished what had been the most successful regime in the history of…
Doing the Woburn Walk
The Bloomsbury of the title refers to the place, not the group. The group didn’t have a poet. ‘I would…
The colonel and the commander
Between the brothers Peter and Ian Fleming, Fionn Morgan wonders who was the better writer and who the better man
The great betrayal
During the Spanish civil war the single greatest atrocity perpetrated by the Republicans was known as ‘Paracuellos’. This was the…
Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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The colonel and the commander
7 August 1964 4 Old Mitre Court, EC4 Darling Fifi, A thousand thanks for your sweet letter & for Heaven’s…
80 sq yds per gallon
Nothing brings him to the door quite as surely as Silexine Watertight, the complete waterproofer. One Imperial Quart. Opened this…
Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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The colonel and the commander
7 August 1964 4 Old Mitre Court, EC4 Darling Fifi, A thousand thanks for your sweet letter & for Heaven’s…
80 sq yds per gallon
Nothing brings him to the door quite as surely as Silexine Watertight, the complete waterproofer. One Imperial Quart. Opened this…
Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Translating Proust wasn’t all
Sam Leith is astonished by how much the multi-talented Charles Scott Moncrieff achieved in his short lifetime
A monumental achievement
Ivor Roberts-Jones was in many ways the right artist at the wrong time. Had the sculptor been born a few…
Grappling with the impossible subject
‘Everybody could see that this man was not a “monster”, but it was difficult indeed not to suspect that he…
A murder of crows
This book, with its absurdly uninformative photographs, dismal charts and smattering of charmless drawings, looks like a report. A pity,…
The leader of the band
Chris Barber, still going strong with his big band, was born in 1930. He heard jazz as a schoolboy on…
