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Ian Gilmour: Dingy Quadrilaterals · 19 October 2006

  • Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir by David Profumo  Buy this book

Dinah Birch: Little was expected of Annie · 19 October 2006

  • Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle 1820-1960 by Gillian Sutherland  Buy this book

Colin Burrow: Recribrations · 5 October 2006

Richard Gott: Wafted to India · 5 October 2006

David Edgar: Ticket to Milford Haven · 21 September 2006

Andrew O’Hagan: Nasty Lucky Genes · 21 September 2006

Michael Newton: I’m not an actress · 7 September 2006

John Sturrock: How stupid people are · 7 September 2006

Frank Kermode: ‘It’s the way people like us don’t talk’ · 7 September 2006

R.W. Johnson: Far from the Least Worst Alternative · 17 August 2006

Anne Hollander: Insouciance · 20 July 2006

  • Lee Miller by Carolyn Burke

David Edgar: Stalking Out · 20 July 2006

  • John Osborne: A Patriot for Us by John Heilpern

John Mullan: Restless Daniel · 20 July 2006

  • The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by John Richetti
  • A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens

Amanda Claybaugh: He could not cable · 20 July 2006

  • Frank Norris: A Life by Joseph McElrath and Jesse Crisler

John Barrell: Unwarranted · 6 July 2006

  • John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur Cash

Ferdinand Mount: Double-Barrelled Dolts · 6 July 2006

  • Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism by Stephen Dorril
  • Hurrah for the Blackshirts! Fascists and Fascism between the Wars by Martin Pugh  Buy this book

Andrew O’Hagan: Blame it on the boogie · 6 July 2006

Wendy Lesser: Haute Booboisie · 6 July 2006

  • Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Jeremy Adler: ‘My dear, dear friend and Führer!’ · 6 July 2006

  • Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Alan Bance

David Coward: ‘Monocled Baron Charged’ · 8 June 2006

  • Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil

Terry Eagleton: Eat it · 8 June 2006

  • Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd  Buy this book

Martin Jay: Against Solitude · 8 June 2006

  • Karl Jaspers, a Biography: Navigations in Truth by Suzanne Kirkbright  Buy this book

Jenny Diski: Be mean and nasty · 25 May 2006

  • Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken  Buy this book

Colin Jones: Shady · 25 May 2006

  • Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson  Buy this book
  • Le Monde des salons by Antoine Lilti

Colm Tóibín: Don’t abandon me · 11 May 2006

Andrew Bacevich: Denizens of Baghdad’s Green Zone, take note · 20 April 2006

  • Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism by Jack McCallum  Buy this book

Robert Irwin: Only the Camels · 6 April 2006

  • Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland  Buy this book

Jenny Diski: The Housekeeper of a World-Shattering Theory · 23 March 2006

  • Martha Freud: A Biography by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow  Buy this book

Christopher Tayler: Yuh wanna play bad? · 23 March 2006

Bee Wilson: The Eerie One · 23 March 2006

Charles Nicholl: The wind comes up out of nowhere · 9 March 2006

Eric Hobsbawm: Red Science · 9 March 2006

Maya Jasanoff: Let in the Djinns · 9 March 2006

  • The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World by Dane Kennedy  Buy this book

Ian Sansom: Very like St Paul · 9 March 2006

  • The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner  Buy this book
  • Walk the Line directed by James Mangold (2005)

R.W. Johnson: Young Brutes · 23 February 2006

  • Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery: The Tragedy of a Political Family by David Faber  Buy this book

Julian Bell: I’m not upset. It’s nerves · 23 February 2006

  • Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse Vol. II The Conquest of Colour 1909-54 by Hilary Spurling  Buy this book

Theo Tait: Gorilla with Mobile Phone · 9 February 2006

  • Houellebecq non autorisé: enquête sur un phénomène by Denis Demonpion
  • The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd  Buy this book

John Demos: No Restraint · 9 February 2006

Colin Burrow: Not Quite Nasty · 9 February 2006

Jeremy Treglown: Make use of me · 9 February 2006

  • Olivia Manning: A Life by Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke  Buy this book

Jenny Diski: Had we lived . . . · 9 February 2006

  • Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South by David Crane  Buy this book

Steven Shapin: Tod aus Luft · 26 January 2006

  • Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare by Daniel Charles  Buy this book

Tom Nairn: History’s Postman · 26 January 2006

  • Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde by Jacques Attali

Michael Wood: His Shoes · 5 January 2006

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Frank Kermode: Blackening · 5 January 2006

Rosemary Hill: Even Purer than Before · 15 December 2005

  • Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman by Angelica Goodden  Buy this book

Jenny Turner: As Astonishing as Elvis · 1 December 2005

James Meek: In fonder times, the tsar scalded and stabbed to death a prince · 1 December 2005

  • Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga  Buy this book

Curtis Sittenfeld: You, You, You, You, You, You, and Mom · 1 December 2005

Andy Clark: It’s raining, so I’ll take an umbrella · 1 December 2005

  • Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker edited by Christof Teuscher  Buy this book

Rick Perlstein: Operation Barbarella · 17 November 2005

  • Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon by Mary Hershberger  Buy this book

Andrew Nathan: Jade and Plastic · 17 November 2005

R.W. Johnson: In Pyjamas · 17 November 2005

Jenny Diski: Giving Hysteria a Bad Name · 17 November 2005

Sheila Fitzpatrick: A Little Swine · 3 November 2005

  • Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly  Buy this book

Adam Phillips: What You Really Want · 3 November 2005

Fatema Ahmed: No snarling · 3 November 2005

Michael Dobson: A Furtive Night’s Work · 20 October 2005

Colin Burrow: No Way Out · 20 October 2005

  • Memoir by John McGahern

Amanda Claybaugh: A Broken Teacup · 6 October 2005

  • William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson  Buy this book

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