Christopher Bray

Articles by Christopher Bray

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The great explicator

  • 30 April 2007

Growing Up in a War Bryan Magee Pimlico, 400pp, £17.99

Big truths, small lies

  • 19 February 2007

Tony Visconti, the autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn boy Tony Visconti HarperCollins, 400pp, £18.99 ISBN 0007229445

Pure escapism

  • 05 February 2007

The Secret Life of Houdini: the making of America's first superhero William Kalush and Larry Sloman Simon & Schuster, 592pp, £18.99 ISBN 184739082X

To have and have not

  • 08 January 2007

From Bogart and Bacall to Brad and Angelina, Hollywood relationships have always reflected the romantic values to which we aspire

Naughty but nice

  • 04 December 2006

The Life of Kingsley Amis Zachary Leader Jonathan Cape, 996pp, £25 ISBN 0224062271

Wizards of Oz

  • 09 October 2006

Things I Didn’t Know Robert Hughes Harvill Secker, 395pp, £25 ISBN 1846550149 North Face of Soho: unreliable memoirs (volume IV) Clive James Picador, 264pp, £17.99 ISBN 0330481282 At the height of the 1960s, Australia's cleverest men hit London in a haze of art, drugs and fiery critical prose

Swinging on solid ground

  • 14 August 2006

Despite the hippies and the happenings, the Sixties were less radical than we think. Christopher Bray revisits a decade in which only the privileged put on their glad rags

The sound of music

  • 10 July 2006
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Bernard Herrmann's soundtracks proved too good for Alfred Hitchcock

Severed isles

  • 19 June 2006

The Book of Dave Will Self Viking, 496pp, £17.99 ISBN 0670914436

The giant boy

  • 05 June 2006

Orson Welles: hello Americans Simon Callow Jonathan Cape, 507pp, £25 ISBN 0224038532

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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