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The Indian lady at the chemist
I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…
Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Indian lady at the chemist
I trust her look the shadow round her eyes her level stare explaining paracetamol these ones are strong take them…
Title Stories: A study in scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Germans see the best of their soul in Weimar. Everyone else, on the other hand..
For centuries hailed as the home of poetry, music and liberalism, Weimar was ruthlessly exploited by the Nazis and later served as a showcase for communism, says Philip Hensher
This thriller is as good as anything by Hilary Mantel
A few years ago, after a lifetime of wearing white shirts through which the straps of my white bra were…
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…
Peter Levi – poet, priest and life-enhancer
Hilaire Belloc was once being discussed on some television programme. One of the panellists was Peter Levi. The other critics…
Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Ali Smith's How to be Both: warm, funny, subtle, intelligent – and baffling
Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…
The real Dad’s Army was no joke
Dad’s Army, the sitcom to end all sitcoms, portrayed the Home Guard as often doddery veterans. In one episode, Private…
When boxing ruled the world
The early 1970s was a good time for heavyweight boxing. Indeed, it was probably the last truly great age for…
Floating bodies, seeing hands, rippling skies - is Jerry Uelsmann’s photomontage a tragic dead-end?
An untitled photograph by Jerry Uelsmann from 1991 shows a rock like Magritte’s floating in the sky between an Ansel…
In love with the lodger
Champion Hill, Camberwell, 1922. A mother and daughter, stripped of their menfolk by the Great War, struggle to make ends…
Exactly how much fun was it being an impoverished artist in Paris?
What he really wanted, Picasso once remarked, was to live ‘like a pauper, but with plenty of money’. It sounds…
Kafka goes to Dubai
‘X’ is in ‘the Situation’: Joseph O’Neill, author of the clever and superb Netherland, hereby lets us know that his…
In defence of the Jacobins
The French Revolution ushered in not only a revolution of rolling heads but of talking ones too. ‘Speech-making was a…
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Thought bubbles
It is not really a surprise that political parties produce a certain number of oddballs; the scary thing is that…
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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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 biography that makes Philip Larkin human again
We needn’t apologise for Philip Larkin any longer, says Peter J. Conradi. His place is unmistakeably among the greats
