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Joe Treasure

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The Book of Air

7 April 2017, 18:00 PM
I was about to write my promised piece on Anna Karenina, when my editor suggested that perhaps it would be a good idea to mention
7 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Language and the Presidency

10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
I ended my last piece with a promise not to waste any more words on the self-publicist and arch-troll Milo Yiannopoulos. I break that
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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The unsolved mystery of Elena Ferrante

13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Elena Ferrante is an Italian novelist in her 70s who has been producing published work for about 25 years. But it was only four years
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The new plot against America

The new plot against America

9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth imagines two years of alternative history for the United States.
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Bob Dylan

The flawed brilliance of Bob Dylan

18 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Ever since he appeared on the New York folk scene, presenting himself as an anonymous exile from a place of no distinct identity – “My name it means nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from it's called the Midwest” – Bob Dylan has worked to elude definition.
18 November 2016, 18:00 PM

The Other Handmaid's Tale

28 October 2016, 18:00 PM
I happened to be living in California when the twin towers were destroyed and, although a long way from New York, I observed
28 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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When your word is someone else's bond

26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Within minutes of Melania Trump finishing her speech at the US Republican Convention, the news was out that she had plagiarised a
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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Drone strikes and authorial intentions

17 June 2016, 18:00 PM
I saw Eye in the Sky the afternoon it opened in London. I went with few preconceptions, knowing only that it was about drones and
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Reading Bellow in Chicago

Last month Donald Trump and I happened to be in Chicago at the same time. He was there for the Republican primary. I wasn't.
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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A living celebration of Shakespeare's sonnets

Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare's works still seem inexhaustible as a source of pleasure and a spur to creative
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
The Winter's Tale

Recycling Shakespeare

Hogarth Press has commissioned a series of 'retellings' of Shakespeare plays. First to appear is Jeanette Winterson's take on The Winter's Tale.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Portrait of Shelley (1819) by Amelia Curran

Undergraduate poem comes to light

In 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet promoting atheism. This wasn't his first offence.
4 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Sweet caress

Strange motivations

I'm grateful to the novelist James Meek for introducing me to a new critical term. Reviewing Jonathan Franzen'sPurity (“From Wooden to Plastic”, LRB, 24/09/15), Meek writes that the first appearance of Leila Helou“is couched in the leaden terms of the Unaccountably
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Truth-telling

Truth-telling and the right to publish

The career of the British concert pianist James Rhodes has been anything but conventional. He was more or less self-taught until he was 13.
31 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Hard times revisited

For three impressive London women born in Bangladesh there were cheering results in the UK election.
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
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