New Statesman - <![CDATA[Robert Hanks]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/robert_hanks en <![CDATA[Casino capitalism]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2012/01/casino-aspinall-aspers-city http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2012/01/casino-aspinall-aspers-city Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Robert Hanks

]]> <![CDATA[Great Ideas - Series Five ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/09/ideas-series-penguin-state http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/09/ideas-series-penguin-state Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:25:58 GMT Robert Hanks

]]> <![CDATA[In Praise of Older Women]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/03/older-women-sex-andras-praise http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/03/older-women-sex-andras-praise Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:22:16 GMT Robert Hanks

]]> <![CDATA[Who’d have thought it]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/ideas-series-penguin-winder http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/ideas-series-penguin-winder Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:40:53 GMT Robert Hanks Penguin’s Great Ideas series is too Eurocentric, too male – but at least it’s made it cool to pull a volume of Edmund Burke from your pocket.

]]> <![CDATA[Socialism and suspense]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/ambler-business-uncommon http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/ambler-business-uncommon Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:05 GMT Robert Hanks Eric Ambler was born a century ago, but the morally compromised world of his left-wing thrillers is still very familiar today.

]]> <![CDATA[Deliver us from evil]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/03/office-girl-zweig-christine http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/03/office-girl-zweig-christine Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:49:45 GMT Robert Hanks The Post Office Girl Stefan Zweig Sort Of Books, 265pp, £7.99

]]> <![CDATA[Hard to care about]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/jay-mcinerney-bachelor-lost http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/jay-mcinerney-bachelor-lost Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:35:41 GMT Robert Hanks The Last Bachelor Jay McInerney Bloomsbury, 216pp, £12.99

]]> <![CDATA[Dazzling digressions]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/santa-teresa-2666-book-bolano http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/santa-teresa-2666-book-bolano Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:58:05 GMT Robert Hanks 2666 Roberto Bolaño Picador, 898pp, £20

]]> <![CDATA[Killingly funny]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/gilbert-adair-christie-holmes http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/gilbert-adair-christie-holmes Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:31:46 GMT Robert Hanks And Then There Was No One Gilbert Adair Faber & Faber, 272pp, £14.99

]]> <![CDATA[Eastern approaches]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/china-buruma-japanese http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/china-buruma-japanese Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:30:27 GMT Robert Hanks The China Lover Ian Buruma Atlantic Books, 320pp, £15.99

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