FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2021

Book Review

A Scottish Paradise

Paradise: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray reviewed

By Ian Thomson

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Book Review

An unquiet life

There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura reviewed

By Lee Langley

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Music

Yes man: Rick Wakeman on punk and prog

‘People choose the advice that suits them, including the politicians’

By Rod Liddle

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Architecture

From Prussia with love

The Humboldt brothers inspired Berlin’s museums — and London’s too

By Tristram Hunt

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Film

Eyes wide open

Frederic Raphael wrote the script for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Now he writes a personal letter to the director’s shade

By Frederic Raphael

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Book Review

Swing the cat

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins reviewed

By Jay Elwes

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Television

Ridley’s game

Raised by Wolves reviewed

By James Delingpole

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Book Review

Playwright at play

Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee reviewed

By Craig Raine

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Music

Alfred Brendel, Dadaist

Brendel’s writing, unlike his nobly self-effacing recordings, hints at a slightly scary personality

By Damian Thompson

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Television

Boys will be boys

Whatever happened to the heroes?

By Amber Duke

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Book Review

Russian roulette

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi reviewed

By Daniel Rey

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Book Review

Enlightened minds

Was there one Enlightenment or many?

By Jesse Norman

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Book Review

Missing links

Invisible Ink by Patrick Modiano reviewed

By Boyd Tonkin

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Book Review

The life and loves of Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli reviewed

By Ruth Scurr

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Book Review

‘Mother Volga’ has always been Russia’s lifeblood

The Volga: A History by Janet M. Hartley reviewed

By Matthew Janney

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