Books

The hooligan and the psychopath

16 August 2014 9:00 am

A Season with Verona (2002), Tim Parks’s account of a year on tour with the Italian football club Hellas Verona’s…

The case of the amnesiac autobiographer

16 August 2014 9:00 am

In October 2002, 28-year-old David Stuart MacLean woke up at Hyderabad railway station. He was standing at the time, and…

A toast to beer, from Plato to Frank Zappa

16 August 2014 9:00 am

‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…

‘Him’, 2001, by Maurizio Cattelan (Installation view)

Books and arts

16 August 2014 9:00 am

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Roll out the barrel

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…

One Afternoon

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

In Aljezur we took a walk And paused above the river where, Among the rushes, swifts and fish, We saw…

Title Stories: Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

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Roll out the barrel

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…

One Afternoon

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

In Aljezur we took a walk And paused above the river where, Among the rushes, swifts and fish, We saw…

Title Stories: Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

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James Bond's secret: he's Jamaican

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Lewis Jones on Ian Fleming’s Jamaican retreat and the inspiration it provided for the Bond novels

The dangerous allure of the unseen. Students of the occult are alarmed by their own success in conjuring up the dead

An invisibility cloak? You might just be able to see it on the horizon...

9 August 2014 9:00 am

The best books by good writers — and Philip Ball is a very good writer indeed — are sometimes the…

Drawing of a goshawk by the leading wildlife artist Bruce Pearson. From A Sparrowhawk’s Lament: How British Breeding Birds of Prey are Faring, by David Cobham (Princeton University Press, £24.95, pp. 256, ISBN 9780691157641, Spectator Bookshop, £23.95)

Falling in love with birds of prey

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Is it the feathers that do the trick? The severely truculent expressions on their faces? Or is it their ancient…

The Jane Austen of Brazil

9 August 2014 9:00 am

When the American poet Elizabeth Bishop arrived in Brazil in 1951, she expected to spend two weeks there and ended…

Two Roads

9 August 2014 9:00 am

There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…

‘Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces’ by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds produced some of the finest portraits of the 18th century – and a few of the silliest

9 August 2014 9:00 am

On Monday 21 April 1760 Joshua Reynolds had a busy day. Through the morning and the afternoon he had a…

Soviet greyness, literary mediocrity and hot dates

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Right at the outset of this autobiographical novel — in fact it reads more like a memoir — Ismail Kadare…

Interviews with the great, the good, the less great and the really quite bad

9 August 2014 9:00 am

The TV chat show, if not actually dead, has been in intensive care for a while now, hooked up to…

Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess

9 August 2014 9:00 am

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‘The Cornfield’, 1918, by John Nash

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9 August 2014 9:00 am

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Guilt trip

9 August 2014 9:00 am

If you had to pick one emotion to characterise Australia’s attitude towards East Timor, it would be guilt. We are…

Two Roads

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

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

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

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Two Roads

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

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

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

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