Books & arts
Just beyond the reach of words
Norman Abjorensen
22 March 2012
Norman Abjorensen reviews a new biography of the enigmatic Rick Farley
From the archive
The diplomat who read Dostoyevsky
Graeme Dobell
8 February 2012
Tormented by self-doubt, regretting missed opportunities, George Kennan helped shape the postwar world
Books & arts
Dickens’s full marathon
Richard Johnstone
8 December 2011
If it reminded us of nothing else, the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth underlined his extraordinary energy
From the archive
Lucking into the zeitgeist
Iain Topliss
17 February 2011
Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist who made anxiety funny
Books & arts
A Shavian romance
Jill Kitson
27 January 2011
IN BRIEF | Jill Kitson reviews The Prizefighter and the Playwright
Books & arts
The most independent woman in the world
Jill Kitson
27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
Books & arts
The lost mother
Amanda Lohrey
24 April 2009
Amanda Lohrey reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir, The Lost Child
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