An Atheist in the Foxhole by Joe Muto: A lot of fun at Fox News, but somewhat light on revelation
Joe Muto, a self-described liberal and Obama supporter, joined Fox News in 2004. Nicky Woolf finds his insider exposé insightful,…
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A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee: After frothiness comes leadenness
Dee has followed his celebrated topical satire The Privileges with a double portrait that's tighter in focus and smaller in…
ByDiaries and Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov: I have rarely read the letters of an artist that were less intrinsically interesting
Some great writers are also great letter-writers, others are not. Bulgakov's letters tell the story, or at least accompany the…
ByThe Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers: Sadly and crushingly, most important was that he was an alcoholic
The "Bill Sikes" actor turned down Spielberg, Polanski and even James Bond – why?
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Juliet Jacques on Deborah Levy's new essay.
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The Quarry comes across as something of a "greatest hits" – I wanted, desperately, for the book to be a…
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The elephant untethered.
ByNelson Mandela: The mouse that roared
From the New Statesman, 15 April 1994. The assassination of Chris Hani, the leader of the South African Communist Party,…
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