Ian Hamilton
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels – and on football – to the LRB. He died in 2001.
In the LRB Archive:
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Two Poems · 14 January 2002
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‘I intend to support white rule’ on Allen Tate · 24 May 2001
- Allen Tate: Orphan of the South by Thomas Underwood
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Two Poems · 19 April 2001
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Tough Guy on Keith Douglas · 8 February 2001
- Keith Douglas: The Letters edited by Desmond Graham
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Going Flat Out, National Front and All: Watch your mouth! · 14 December 2000
- Diaries: Into Politics by Alan Clark
- The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists edited by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor
- The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Vol. III: From Major to Blair edited by Sarah Curtis
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The Power of Des writes about the screen rights to English Premier League Football · 6 July 2000
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‘OK, holy man, try this’: The Hypothetical Philip Roth · 22 June 2000
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
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Sorry to go on like this on Kingsley Amis · 1 June 2000
- The Letters of Kingsley Amis edited by Zachary Leader
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Ashamed of the Planet · 2 March 2000
- No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser
- Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell by Mary von Schrader Jarrell
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Glittering Fiend on John Berryman · 9 December 1999
- Berryman's Shakespeare edited by John Haffenden
- John Berryman’s Personal Library: A Catalogue by Richard Kelly
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A couple of peep-holes in the pillowcase and off we go a-lynching on the Ku Klux Klan · 30 September 1999
- Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the Twenties by David Horowitz
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Diary: Whoop, whoop, terrain · 29 April 1999
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A to Z: Schmidt’s List · 4 March 1999
- Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
- A Critical Difference: T.S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-28 by David Goldie
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Diary on Poets Laureate · 7 January 1999
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Eric the Nerd: The Utterly Complete Orwell · 29 October 1998
- The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson
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Hobnobbing · 1 October 1998
- Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler
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Diary watches the World Cup · 30 July 1998
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How much?: literary pay and literary prizes · 18 June 1998
- Guide to Literary Prizes, 1998 edited by Huw Molseed
- The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher
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Redeemable Bad Guy: Rabbit and Zooey · 2 April 1998
- Toward the End of Time by John Updike
- Golf Dreams by John Updike
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Taste, Tact and Racism on the death of Princess Diana · 22 January 1998
- Assassination of a Princess by Ahmad Ata
- Diana: A Princess Killed by Love by Ilham Sharshar
- Who Killed Diana? by Muhammad Ragab
- Harrods: A Place in Knightsbridge by Tim Dale
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The least you can do is read it · 2 October 1997
- Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis
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Frown by Frown · 3 July 1997
- Autobiographies by R.S. Thomas
- Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S. Thomas and God by Justin Wintle
- Collected Poems 1945-90 by R.S. Thomas
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Diary · 22 May 1997
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Just what are those teeth for? · 24 April 1997
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Diary · 22 August 1996
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Many-Modelled · 20 June 1996
- Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life by Max Saunders
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Heart-Stopping · 25 January 1996
- Not Playing for Celtic: Another Paradise Lost by David Bennie
- Achieving the Goal by David Platt
- Captain’s Log: The Gary McAllister Story by Gary McAllister and Graham Clark
- Blue Grit: The John Brown Story by John Brown and Derek Watson
- Kicking and Screaming: An Oral History of Football in England by Rogan Taylor and Andrew Ward
- A Passion for the Game: Real Lives in Football by Tom Watt
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Four Poems · 3 August 1995
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There shouldn’t be a licence to get things wrong · 8 June 1995
- Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the ‘New Yorker’ by Thomas Kunkel
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Smartened Up · 9 March 1995
- Louis MacNeice: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy
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Neglect · 26 January 1995
- An Unmentionable Man by Edward Upward
- Journey to the Border by Edward Upward
- The Mortmere Stories by Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward
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Tel’s Tale · 24 November 1994
- Venables: The Autobiography by Terry Venables and Neil Hanson
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Call me unpretentious · 20 October 1994
- Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother by Terry Major-Ball
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Young Wystan · 8 September 1994
- Juvenilia: Poems 1922-28 by W.H. Auden, edited by Katherine Bucknell
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Being there · 7 October 1993
- Up at Oxford by Ved Mehta
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Disastered Me · 9 September 1993
- Rebecca’s Vest: A Memoir by Karl Miller
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Irving, Terry, Gary and Graham · 22 April 1993
- Behind Closed Doors by Irving Scholar and Mihir Bose
- Sick as a Parrot: The Inside Story of the Spurs Fiasco by Chris Horrie
- Gary Lineker: Strikingly Different by Colin Malam
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Bugger me blue · 22 October 1992
- The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite
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Evil Days · 23 July 1992
- The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia by John Carey
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Whangity-Whang-Whang · 28 May 1992
- Damon Runyon: A Life by Jimmy Breslin
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Cold Shoulders, Short Trousers · 12 March 1992
- Will this do? by Auberon Waugh
- Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper edited by Artemis Cooper
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One for the road · 21 March 1991
- Memoirs by Kingsley Amis
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What’s wrong with Desmond? · 30 August 1990
- Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy by Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil
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Four Poems · 26 July 1990
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They never married · 10 May 1990
- The Dictionary of National Biography: 1981-1985 edited by Lord Blake and C.S. Nicholls
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Dogface · 28 September 1989
- Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
- War like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties by Andrew Sinclair
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Two Poems · 2 March 1989
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Phil the Lark · 13 October 1988
- Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite
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Excusez-moi · 1 October 1987
- The Haw-Lantern by Seamus Heaney
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Diary · 9 July 1987
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Poem: ‘An Alternative Agenda’ · 25 June 1987
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Poem: ‘Larkinesque’ · 19 March 1987
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Real Questions · 6 November 1986
- Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes
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Diary · 23 January 1986
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The Waugh between the Diaries · 5 December 1985
- The Diaries of Auberon Waugh: A Turbulent Decade 1976-1985 edited by Anna Galli-Pahlavi
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Diary · 19 September 1985
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Diary · 15 November 1984
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Martin and Martina · 20 September 1984
- Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
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Diary · 15 March 1984
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Three Poems · 2 February 1984
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Diary · 6 October 1983
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Diary · 15 September 1983
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Mummies · 16 June 1983
- Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
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Diary · 3 February 1983
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Cinders · 21 October 1982
- Women Working: Prositution Now by Eileen McLeod
- An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey
- All the Girls by Martin O’Brien
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Diary · 2 September 1982
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Diary · 5 August 1982
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Diary · 15 July 1982
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Diary · 1 July 1982
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Ugly Stuff · 15 October 1981
- Beyond the Pale by William Trevor
- The Black House by Patricia Highsmith
- Lantern Lecture by Adam Mars-Jones
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The Comic Strip · 3 September 1981
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Fame · 2 July 1981
- Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne by Clive James
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Hard Man · 16 October 1980
- Walk Don’t Walk The Camp From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams
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Smileyfication · 20 March 1980
- Smiley’s People by John le Carré
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Blowing It · 6 March 1980
- Breaking Ranks by Norman Podhoretz
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Snowdunnit · 8 November 1979
- A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow
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