New Statesman - <![CDATA[Tim Parks]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/tim_parks en <![CDATA[Meditation rescued me from misanthropy]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2010/07/meditation-found-retreat-life http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2010/07/meditation-found-retreat-life Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:36:36 GMT Tim Parks Religion is an easy target for atheists, but, as Tim Parks discovered, there’s no escaping that there’s more to life than rational thinking and the material world. He found the key on a Buddhist retreat in the countryside.

]]> <![CDATA[Special Report - Sin and be happy]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200604030019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200604030019 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT Tim Parks As Italians prepare to go to the polls, the author Tim Parks identifies a ritualistic sparring that is destroying his adopted home and the country he loves

]]> <![CDATA[Forgotten favourites - Enchanted Isle. Tim Parks delights in a story of Mediterranean boyhood that tackles the debates of the postwar period, while seeming to exist outside history]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200312010040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200312010040 Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:00:00 GMT Tim Parks Arturo's Island Elsa Morante Translated by Isabel Quigley Steerforth Press, 368pp, £12.99 ISBN 1586420410

]]> <![CDATA[The altar of fire]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200306160034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200306160034 Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:00:00 GMT Tim Parks In a world without faith or metaphysics, we need a grand illusion like the European Union. Even with all their prevarications and no-shows, the British cannot cheat us out of this latter-day castle in the sky, argues Tim Parks

]]>