George Walden
Articles by George Walden
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Ideas
NS Essay - Whether it's sex, drink, schools or culture, the English are extremists
- 07 March 2005
England doesn't deserve its reputation for moderation. Where else do you find, in the same country, a Soviet-style health service - or aristocrats still making laws?
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Death and glory. A new film humanises Hitler; Prince Harry wears a swastika to a party; a musical pokes fun at the Fuhrer. There is always something we have to remember, writes George Walden, except the enormity of Nazi evil itself
- 31 January 2005
The End: Hamburg 1943
Hans Erich Nossack University of Chicago Press, 87pp, £14
ISBN 0226595560
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Why the truth gets you nowhere. "The point of argument is not to be right, but to win": from a melancholic 19th-century philosopher, a true text for our times. George Walden on the rhetorical shamelessness that pervades public life
- 01 January 2005
The Art of Always Being Right
Arthur Schopenhauer; with an introduction by A C Grayling Gibson Square Books, 190pp, £9.99
ISBN 1903933617
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A burnt-out case. The story of a vain sexual adventurer told by an assassin of language - George Walden on why Graham Greene got the biographer he deserved
- 25 October 2004
The Life of Graham Greene: volume three (1955-1991)
Norman Sherry Jonathan Cape, 906pp, £25
ISBN 0224059742
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The truth about Henry. George Walden wonders if, rather than attempting the awesome feat of fictionalising Henry James's life, David Lodge should have stuck to conventional biography
- 06 September 2004
Author, Author
David Lodge Secker & Warburg, 389pp, £16.99
ISBN 0436205270
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Commentary
- 02 August 2004
It may be less lucrative than its British counterpart and its sponsor may be languishing in jail. But, writes George Walden, the Russian Booker Prize is still dedicated to serious literature
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Anthropologist, study thyself. So the English are eccentric, self-deprecating and good at queueing - what's new? Forget such observations. That an Oxford social scientist can get away with producing witless, patronising pap tells us much more about contemporary England
- 10 May 2004
Watching the English: the hidden rules of English behaviour
Kate Fox Hodder & Stoughton, 424pp, £20
ISBN 0340818859
World Affairs
The highway of despair. Oprah Winfrey and J K Rowling are the villains; Radiohead are the cultural revolutionaries. The latest howl of rage against capitalist culture and American mediocrity exemplifies the sentimental, self-indulgent non-thinking it sets out to attack
- 23 February 2004
The Middle Mind: why Americans don't think for themselves
Curtis White Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 205pp, £12.99
ISBN 071399763X
Politics
After Hutton - Dyke and Campbell: spot the difference
- 09 February 2004
The BBC director general and his chief enemy in Downing Street were both part of the vulgarisation of our culture. We should be glad they're gone
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The human bind. John Updike is acclaimed as a chronicler of the contemporary, a thoroughly modern, relaxed and witty fellow who writes wonderfully about sex. Yet he is also a Christian and a patriot. Religion does more than colour his prose; it shapes it
- 19 January 2004
The Early Stories
John UpdikeHamish Hamilton, 838pp, £25
ISBN 0241142644
