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A wicked way with words

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Histories of our language used to focus on "standard English". Now, writes Henry Hitchings, they are as likely to draw on rap and advertising as on Keats and Milton

Don't look back

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven Alan Warner Jonathan Cape, 390pp, �11.99 ISBN 0224071297

Last supper

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT

A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the great modernist dinner party of 1922 Richard Davenport-Hines Faber & Faber, 358pp, �14.99 ISBN 0571220088

Two's company, three's a crowd

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

As "Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec" opens at Tate Britain, Henry Hitchings wonders about the artistic merits of the increasingly fashionable "combination" exhibition

Novel of the week

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Landor's Tower Iain Sinclair Granta, 345pp, �15.99 ISBN 1862070180

Split personality

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Romancing: the life and work of Henry Green Jeremy Treglown Faber & Faber, 340pp, �25 ISBN 0571168981

Poetic craving

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Sidetracks Richard Holmes HarperCollins, 420pp, �19.99 ISBN 0002555786

No marmalade?

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Philip Sidney: A Double Life Alan Stewart Chatto and Windus, 400pp, �20 ISBN 0701168595

Back in print

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 08 Nov 1999 12:00:00 GMT

The Unfortunates B S Johnson Picador, �18.99 ISBN 0330353292

Fight the power

Henry Hitchings — Mon, 01 Nov 1999 12:00:00 GMT

I'm a Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader Gerald Early Yellow Jersey Press, 299pp, �8 ISBN 0224059459 King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero David Remnick Picador, 326pp, �14.99