Books
Guilt trip
If you had to pick one emotion to characterise Australia’s attitude towards East Timor, it would be guilt. We are…
Two Roads
There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…
Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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Two Roads
There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…
Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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Taking no prisoners
The life of Kaiser Wilhelm II is also a guide to how to ruin a country, says Philip Mansel
Money to burn
The robber barons of the gilded age, at the turn of the 20th century, were the most ruthless accumulators of…
Bachelor girl
Call me a crazy old physiognomist, but my theory is that you can always spot a lesbian by her big…
Derring-do in Salonica
It is difficult to know whether Clive Aslet intended a comparison between his debut novel, The Birdcage, set in Salonica…
Bribery and seduction
‘No, we must go our own way,’ said Lenin. The whole world knows him as Vladimir, while he was in…
Pussy’s in the well
During the second world war, when not only food, but paper and artists’ materials were scarce, Peggy Angus made a…
A choice of recent crime fiction
Philip Kerr is best known for his excellent Bernie Gunther series about a detective trying to survive with his integrity…
The green opium of the people
I was in Shanghai interviewing a Chinese film director and an actor. We were discussing government censorship. How did anyone…
Title Stories: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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A life derailed
When Haruki Murakami — Japan’s most successful novelist at home and abroad — was interviewed by the Paris Review in…
Rosa Wedding Day
More than a thousand buds have arrived in the garden. Yesterday I looked and there were none. Tangled into a…
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Muslim integration
Growing up is hard enough at any time; coping with additional cross-currents of race and religion is a whole new…
Rosa Wedding Day
More than a thousand buds have arrived in the garden. Yesterday I looked and there were none. Tangled into a…
Title Stories: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Rosa Wedding Day
More than a thousand buds have arrived in the garden. Yesterday I looked and there were none. Tangled into a…
Title Stories: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Brushes with fame
Philip Hensher on the precarious fortunes of even the most gifted 19th-century artists
Mr Nice Guy
I’m not making a picture [The Green Berets] about Vietnam, I’m making a picture about good against bad. I happen…
Scars of Sri Lanka
‘The first night I stayed in Kilinochchi, I was a little apprehensive,’ admits the usually cool-headed Vasantha, van-driver and narrator…
