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Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan

Across the literary pages: Boys and girls

A publishing bonanza has erupted. Every living literary luminary one can think of has a novel coming out soon in either hardback or paperback: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeffrey Eugenides to name just three of the heavy-weight men. Of the giants of popular ... [ Published 1 hour ago by Spectator ]
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Random House Inc
Random House Inc

The art of literary ventriloquism

I’ve never much liked the word ‘pastiche’. It always sounds rather condescending to me – as if the meticulous re-evocation of another’s style is some rather inferior form of passing-off.I prefer ‘literary ventriloquism’: the art of catching a recognisable ... [ Published 3 hours ago by Spectator ]
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Spotify Ltd
Spotify Ltd

Spotify Sunday: An enlightening playlist

We recently published this article by William Norris of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), explaining why it uses the strapline ‘Not all audiences are the same’. Here, we present a special Spotify Sunday playlist chosen by members of the ... [ Published 12 hours ago by Spectator ]
First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents
Chris Harrison
Chris Harrison

Not all audiences are the same

Think of classical music. Think about it visually. What do you think about? A conductor? Bow ties and tails? A grand concert hall?Those are the clichés and they’re what you’ll find in most orchestral marketing. But often the two things that are missing ... [ Published May 27 2012 by Spectator ]
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Interview: Paul Durcan on poetry and art

Before we begin, Paul Durcan produces a piece of paper.Just ten minutes previously, he felt a sudden urge, he says, to remember the last verse from W.H Auden’s ‘Fall of Rome’.He raises the note, which he’s scribbled on with black biro, projecting each ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens

The art of fiction: George Orwell

The Orwell Prize was awarded this week, which gives cause to consider Orwell himself. Biographer D.J. Taylor tries to delineate the myths that have arisen around Orwell in the film above, but can provide only an impression. Lack of evidence is, of course, ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents
Bristol Cathedral Choir School
Bristol Cathedral Choir School

An enigma wrapped in a conundrum

Banksy: The Man Behind the WallAurum, 323pp, £20What to make of Banksy? Artist or vandal? Tate Modern holds no Banksys and, other than a redundant phone box that he folded in half and pretended to have reconfigured with a pickaxe, Banksy has never destroyed ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
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Enter a Wodehousian world

Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward SonConstable & Robinson, 172pp, ££12.99On 26 February 1969, Roger Mortimer wrote to his son, Charlie: ‘Your mother has had flu. Her little plan to give up spirits for Lent lasted three and a half days. Pongo has chewed ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
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Doctor in distress

It is winter 1936. Every weekday morning a group of young people travel by train from Ferrara, their home city, to Bologna where they are studying at the university. Theirs is a six-carriage stopping train, often infuriatingly late because of delays on ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
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A most eccentric master

In 1895 the Spanish art collector John Charles Robinson donated a picture to the National Gallery. ‘On the whole I think it is very much above the average of this most eccentric master’s work,’ he phrased his offer less than enticingly. ‘At the same time ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
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Period piece

Opera North’s latest and most ambitious outreach project is a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, which will end its tour with a month’s run from mid-August at the Barbican. The second performance in the Grand Theatre Leeds went down ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
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Paternal pride

It is a glorious moment in the life of any music-loving parent when your progeny develop their own fierce musical tastes, and start looking rather askance at yours. My case may be extreme, as my two children have had to put up with my music for years. ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]

Quotes

"Ireland at that time was like an eastern European communist country, all you had to do was to substitute the bishops for The Communist Party. It was all about conformity. If the rebels of the 1916 Rising aspired to some sort of free country, by the mid 1950s, all their dreams were completely gone."
Interview: Paul Durcan on poetry and art [Spectator - May 25 2012]
"I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power — till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter — I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs — and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is there. He is the martyr, the victim. Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme."
The art of fiction: George Orwell [Spectator - May 25 2012]
"This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project -- uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak. But it is also an important political project: humanising and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little-understood resistance movement that is about to defeat yet another foreign occupation."
Voices of the Taliban [Spectator - May 21 2012]
"What I can do is show you how to strip a piece of text like dismantling an engine — and put it back and see why it roars or purrs. My own method is oily rag and spanners. Words and how they work is what interests me."
Across the literary pages: Bumper issues [Spectator - May 21 2012]

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Across the literary pages: Boys and girls [ Published 1 hour ago by Spectator ]
The art of literary ventriloquism [ Published 3 hours ago by Spectator ]
Spotify Sunday: An enlightening playlist [ Published 12 hours ago by Spectator ]
Not all audiences are the same [ Published May 27 2012 by Spectator ]
Interview: Paul Durcan on poetry and art [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
The art of fiction: George Orwell [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
Doctor in distress [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
An enigma wrapped in a conundrum [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
Enter a Wodehousian world [ Published May 25 2012 by Spectator ]
A most eccentric master [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
Period piece [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
Paternal pride [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
A writers vanity [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
Its time to welcome Delius home [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
Travelling tales [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
Australian Books: The breath of life [ Published May 24 2012 by Spectator ]
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