Books
The hooligan and the psychopath
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
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
‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…
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Roll out the barrel
‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…
One Afternoon
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
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Roll out the barrel
‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…
One Afternoon
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
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James Bond's secret: he's Jamaican
Lewis Jones on Ian Fleming’s Jamaican retreat and the inspiration it provided for the Bond novels
An invisibility cloak? You might just be able to see it on the horizon...
The best books by good writers — and Philip Ball is a very good writer indeed — are sometimes the…
Falling in love with birds of prey
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
When the American poet Elizabeth Bishop arrived in Brazil in 1951, she expected to spend two weeks there and ended…
Two Roads
There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…
Reynolds produced some of the finest portraits of the 18th century – and a few of the silliest
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
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
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
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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
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Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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Two Roads
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Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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