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October 24, 2012
Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent by Mick Conefrey – review
The tale of Hillary and Tenzing's ascent of Everest is one of courage, perseverance and jingoism
June 28, 2012
Justin Cartwright: If banks have values, they are greed, hubris and sheer brass neck
Bob Diamond, the CEO of Barclays, said not so long ago: "There was a period of remorse and apology for banks, and I think that period needs to be over." It was a strange pronouncement, both self-serving and ungrammatical, and its message was "business as usual".
April 18, 2012
When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone by Philip Gould – review
This missive from the deathbed of the New Labour strategist is brave, frank and moving. So why does it leave our reviewer feeling so uneasy?
December 20, 2011
Dickens: Nightmare before Christmas
When I was asked to choose one of Charles Dickens's books to write about for BBC Radio 3's The Essay series on "the Writer's Dickens", I immediately picked A Christmas Carol, because Dickens's love of Christmas has always intrigued me. It came as a surprise to learn that A Christmas...
October 29, 2011
Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century – review
The Arab Spring has forced Amin Maalouf to revise his pessimistic take on the tension between the Middle East and the west
July 30, 2011
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes – review
The mutability of memory lies at the heart of Julian Barnes's brilliantly concise novel
March 30, 2011
Philip Roth
Justin Cartwright: 'All of his novels demonstrate an extraordinary, lively and witty prose, crammed with ironies and changes of perspective ... There is no question, Philip Roth is one of the great writers of our era'
Juan Goytisolo
Justin Cartwright: 'Goytisolo's task, as he sees it, has been to reinvigorate Spanish fiction by adulterating, or "poisoning", it with the range of influences that he has brought to bear on all that he regards as ossified and conservative'
Amin Maalouf
Justin Cartwright: 'His fiction contains a longing for and a deep understanding of unfamiliar and lost cultures and civilisations, in all their magnificence, brutality, culture and delusions'
March 9, 2011
Justin Cartwright's top 10 state of the nation novels
From Middlemarch to Money, the novelist picks the best stories of societies under stress
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