Zimmerman bound or unbound?
Grey Gowrie 4 October 2003 12:00 am
What is going on here? What on earth is going on here? Christopher Ricks, the world's leading critic of poetry…
The love that dared to speak its name
Eric Christiansen 4 October 2003 12:00 am
As you went into the tower door of the church at Marsh Baldon (Oxon), there used to be two wall-tablets.…
The making of a professional
William Trevor 4 October 2003 12:00 am
All the clichés are true: travel refreshes the taste for living; it brightens the jaded mind, it stimulates and deludes.…
Not such a low and dishonest decade
Tim Congdon 4 October 2003 12:00 am
If it is to be interesting, contemporary history has to be a battle between good guys and bad guys. In…
For ever taking leave
Victoria Glendinning 4 October 2003 12:00 am
Martha Gellhorn, an American who lost faith in America, was one of the most important war-reporters of the 20th century.…
Spillikins of wisdom
Nigel Nicolson 4 October 2003 12:00 am
This is not exactly an autobiography — John Mortimer has written three already, one about old age — but more…
Kissing and telling with gusto
Anne Sebba 30 August 2003 12:00 am
Harriette Wilson's Memoirsintroduced by Lesley BlanchPhoenix, £9.99, pp. 471, ISBN 1842126326 What do a modern New York psychoanalyst and a…
More funny peculiar than ha-ha
Byron Rogers 30 August 2003 12:00 am
A shilling life will give you all the facts, or at least a £20 one will. And in the case…
Culture of shame
Matthew Leeming 30 August 2003 12:00 am
I really thought I had made it when I went to give a talk at my old Oxford college. But…
A sane cuckoo in the nest of art
Rupert Christiansen 30 August 2003 12:00 am
This is a hugely impressive but somewhat exhausting book, the justification for which — from a brutally commercial viewpoint —…
Endless stint of stunts
admin 30 August 2003 12:00 am
To be apparently always affable, a person everyone is pleased to see, 'dear old Johnners', as it seems was the…
Settling in Seattle
Eric Anderson 30 August 2003 12:00 am
In Waxwings Jonathan Raban triumphantly transfers the skills of an award-winning travel writer to his second novel. (The first was…
When seeing is not believing
Miranda France 30 August 2003 12:00 am
Waking Raphael has all the ingredients one could hope for from a thriller set in Italy: corruption, art, religion, food…
Trying to be one of the boys
Olivia Glazebrook 30 August 2003 12:00 am
A group of bored American fighter pilots liven up their posting in cold war Germany with round-the-campfire joshing, petty squabbles,…
Finding a way to beat Catch-21
Stuart Wheeler 30 August 2003 12:00 am
'You're not losing; we don't care for that type of play here. Just cash in your chips and collect your…
Courtiers and communists
Philip Mansel 19 July 2003 12:00 am
Courts can be a tool for understanding the present as well as the past. The behaviour patterns of courts and…
For the union dead
Grey Gowrie 19 July 2003 12:00 am
'When I die,' Robert Lowell told me, three days before he did die, in 1977, at the age of 60,…
From one hustler to another
Toby Young 19 July 2003 12:00 am
Dear James, Thanks for sending me a copy of your … what shall we call it? Memoir? Novel? Anyway, I…
More respected than admired
Christopher Woodward 19 July 2003 12:00 am
At the Italian seaside last week I flicked through the hotel's copy of a translation of Gombrich's Story of Art.…
Matthew Leeming 19 July 2003 12:00 am
I have to declare an interest. In the late 1980s, I travelled with the author of this book. After university…
A one-man Dad's army
Harry Mount 19 July 2003 12:00 am
It isn't good manners for somebody to criticise a great-uncle after his death, but I know from first-hand experience that…
Captain Yossarian rides again
David Caute 19 July 2003 12:00 am
Closing Time by Joseph Heller Scribner, £7.99, pp. 464 ISBN 0743239806 Fortune granted Joseph Heller's generation, raised during the Depression,…
The best committee that ever sat
Philip Hensher 5 April 2003 12:00 am
There are two literary facts in English which it is almost impossible to examine, to see clearly. They are Shakespeare…
Master of the merry-go-round
Francis King 5 April 2003 12:00 am
Sprawling, teeming with people and flooded with an almost malevolent brilliance, this book is the literary equivalent of some vast…
The heart of whiteness
Robert Macfarlane 5 April 2003 12:00 am
Happiness writes white, it's said: so too, one would think, does Antarctica. How is it possible to describe an environment…
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