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Elisabeth Ladenson: Someone like Maman · 8 May 2008

  • Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice Kaplan  Buy this book

Hilary Mantel: Frocks and Shocks · 24 April 2008

Thomas Jones: Whisky and Soda Man · 10 April 2008

  • Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard  Buy this book

Ferdinand Mount: Adored Gazelle · 20 March 2008

Megan Marshall: Pretty Letters · 21 February 2008

James Morone: Whoopers and Shouters · 21 February 2008

  • A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin  Buy this book

Charles Nicholl: Who was he? · 7 February 2008

  • The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath by Charles van Onselen  Buy this book

Jeremy Harding: Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again · 7 February 2008

  • Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe  Buy this book

Ferdinand Mount: ‘Derek, please, not so fast’ · 7 February 2008

  • As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld  Buy this book

Julian Bell: Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels · 3 January 2008

  • A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John Richardson  Buy this book

Terry Castle: Husbands and Wives · 13 December 2007

  • Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore edited by Louise Downie  Buy this book
  • Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm  Buy this book

William Feaver: Oh for the oo tray · 13 December 2007

Thomas Keymer: Rogering in Merryland · 13 December 2007

James Davidson: No Beast More Refined · 29 November 2007

Megan Marshall: Let Them Be Sea-Captains · 15 November 2007

  • Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper  Buy this book

Deborah Friedell: Desk Job · 15 November 2007

Mark Greif: Black and White Life · 1 November 2007

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Charmer · 1 November 2007

August Kleinzahler: What Happened to Obama? · 18 October 2007

James Shapiro: Visible Woman · 4 October 2007

Michael Wood: Understanding Forwards · 20 September 2007

  • William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert Richardson  Buy this book

Stefan Collini: Hierophants · 6 September 2007

Colm Tóibín: The Wickedest Woman in Paris · 6 September 2007

J. Hoberman: Thunder in the Mountains · 6 September 2007

  • Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon Callow  Buy this book
  • What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride  Buy this book

Linda Colley: Not Like the Rest of Us · 16 August 2007

  • A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein  Buy this book
  • Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta  Buy this book

Rosemary Hill: Why we have them I can’t think · 16 August 2007

Jenny Diski: Not Enjoying Herself · 16 August 2007

Jenny Diski: Tunnel Vision · 2 August 2007

R.W. Johnson: Ducking and Dodging · 19 July 2007

Peter Clarke: ‘There is a woman behind this!’ · 19 July 2007

  • Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw  Buy this book

David Nasaw: Scandal in Pittsburgh · 19 July 2007

Hilary Mantel: The Real Price of Everything · 21 June 2007

Stephen Walsh: Mikoyan Shuddered · 21 June 2007

Thomas Jones: This Is Not That Place · 21 June 2007

David Coward: Ten Billion Letters · 21 June 2007

  • Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna  Buy this book

Nicholas Penny: Hot Air · 7 June 2007

Dan Jacobson: Kipling in South Africa · 7 June 2007

Bee Wilson: Boudoir Politics · 7 June 2007

Perry Anderson: Our Man · 10 May 2007

  • The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power by James Traub  Buy this book
  • Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler  Buy this book

Susan Pedersen: Heat-Seeking · 10 May 2007

  • A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe by Chris Wrigley  Buy this book

Inigo Thomas: President Gore · 10 May 2007

  • Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006 by Gore Vidal  Buy this book

R.W. Johnson: Up the Garden Path · 26 April 2007

Peter Howarth: In an Empty Church · 26 April 2007

  • The Man who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas by Byron Rogers

Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Self-Made Man · 5 April 2007

Charles Reeve: Balls and Strikes · 5 April 2007

  • Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg by Alice Goldfarb Marquis  Buy this book

Colin Kidd: A Matter of Caste · 22 March 2007

  • Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan  Buy this book

Patrick Collinson: Grisly Creed · 22 February 2007

Rosemary Hill: Bang, Bang, Smash, Smash · 22 February 2007

Paul Driver: Happy Man · 8 February 2007

Martin Puchner: Staging Death · 8 February 2007

  • Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theatre, Philosophy by Toril Moi  Buy this book

Bee Wilson: Pink and Bare · 8 February 2007

Susan Pedersen: In the Front Row · 25 January 2007

  • . . . If Love Were All: The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George by John Campbell  Buy this book

Corey Robin: Dragon-Slayers · 4 January 2007

  • Why Arendt Matters by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl  Buy this book
  • Hannah Arendt: The Jewish Writings edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman  Buy this book
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt  Buy this book

James Wood: Anxious Pleasures · 4 January 2007

  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin

Colm Tóibín: Avoid the Orient · 4 January 2007

John Lanchester: Other People’s Capital · 14 December 2006

Stefan Collini: Do you think he didn’t know? · 14 December 2006

John Barrell: The Positions He Takes · 30 November 2006

R.W. Johnson: Her Boy · 16 November 2006

  • Thatcher’s Fortunes: The Life and Times of Mark Thatcher by Mark Hollingsworth and Paul Halloran  Buy this book
  • The Wonga Coup: The British Mercenary Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa by Adam Roberts  Buy this book

Neal Ascherson: Even Now · 2 November 2006

  • Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass

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