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Tuesday 6 January 2009

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The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


A strong line required

Robert Salisbury

29th December, 2008

Putin and the Rise of Russia by Michael Stuermer

A strong line required

The Millers’ tale

David Caute

29th December, 2008

Arthur Miller, 1915-1962 by Christopher Bigsby

Division and misrule

Carey Schofield

29th December, 2008

The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali

Plagued by plagiarism

Caroline Moore

29th December, 2008

And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair

Slum-dwellers and high-flyers

Lucy Simon

29th December, 2008

Heliopolis by James Scudamore

Conflicts of interest?

Sebastian Smee

29th December, 2008

Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth

Christmas Short Story

Justin Cartwright

12th December, 2008

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
by Justin Cartwright

The ‘little Christmas tale’ that has everything

Susan Hill

12th December, 2008

Susan Hill reappraises Charles Dickens’s classic

Morality play

Edward Avery

12th December, 2008

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

The new look that never aged

Vicki Woods

12th December, 2008

The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand

A choice of gardening books

Mary Keen

12th December, 2008

This is the time of year for dutiful appraisal of current garden books.

Surprising literary ventures

Gary Dexter

12th December, 2008

SantaKid by James Patterson

All or nothing

Adam Nicolson

12th December, 2008

A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland

Friends and enemies

Selina Hastings

12th December, 2008

The Pursuit of Laughter: Essays, Articles and Reviews by Diana Mitford, edited by Deborah Devonshire

A grand overview

Anita Brookner

12th December, 2008

Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles

The secrets of Room 40

Alan Judd

12th December, 2008

‘Blinker’ Hall, Spymaster by David Ramsay

Beyond the wildest dreams

William Leith

12th December, 2008

Collections of Nothing by William Davies King

A balancing act

P.J. Kavanagh

12th December, 2008

English Catholic Heroes by John Jolliffe (editor)

Photopoetry

Patrick Marnham

12th December, 2008

Photopoetry by Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Unkind hearts and Jews

Simon Heffer

12th December, 2008

Israel Rank by Roy Horniman

Beautiful, dandified detachment

Fionn Morgan

12th December, 2008

Fionn Morgan remembers her friend Peter Quennell, writer, editor and former contributor to The Spectator

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