ALAN TYLER on The Lion & The Unicorn, Big Brother and Auntie. Continue reading
Tag Archives: George Orwell
Sausages: an anthology
ALWYN TURNER selects some passages from British literature that concern sausages. Continue reading
Time takes a cigarette
ALWYN TURNER on the style and stupidity of the cigarettes that shaped his smoking life. Continue reading
George Orwell and the Whirligig of Fame
ALWYN TURNER reviews books on Orwell by Dorian Lynskey and John Rodden – one of them good, the other very, very bad. Continue reading
‘It was everything I feared’
From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers. Continue reading
Our Man in Malaga
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rediscovered British account of the Spanish Civil War that eclipses Orwell. Continue reading
Our Singapore
SIMON MATTHEWS on the Empire Trilogy of JG Farrell, and what it tells us about Brexit. Continue reading
First notices: Part 3
Newspaper reviews of Jekyll & Hyde, 1984, Lord of the Flies, Clockwork Orange and others. Continue reading
Two wrongs don’t make a writer
A child murder, a pulp novelist and an obscenity trial. ALWYN TURNER remembers Hank Janson. Continue reading
The decline of the English fraudster
Whatever happened to the good, old-fashioned financial scamster? DAN ATKINSON explains. Continue reading
This week we have been mostly…
A selection of the writing, wittering and viewing that has caught our attention over the past week. Continue reading
