Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Articles by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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Never criticise the family

  • 02 October 2008
  • 55 comments

Zionism is one of the most contentious ideas, freighted with emotion by both partisans and detractors. Now some Jews are speaking out, breaking a long self-censorship

Still strung out

  • 24 July 2008
  • 5 comments

Doping scandals continue to tarnish the glory of cycling's top event - the Tour de France. A book by a disillusioned fan examines the sport's hard-to-kick drug habit

Decline and fall

  • 10 October 2005

Our Culture, What's Left of It: the mandarins and the masses
Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R Dee, 356pp, £18.99
ISBN 1566636434

A state like no other. Israel, once seen as a refuge, has become one of the few places where Jews are attacked simply for being Jews. Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the troubled history of a homeland

  • 25 April 2005

Jacob's Gift: a journey into the heart of belonging
Jonathan Freedland Hamish Hamilton, 395pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241142431

The Question of Zion
Jacqueline Rose Princeton University Press, 208pp, £12.95

The Return of Anti-Semitism
Gabriel Schoenfeld Politico's, 186pp, £14.99

A man of the century. Martin Amis wrote about him with devotion; to Gore Vidal, he was the best critic of "the living novel". Geoffrey Wheatcroft on one of literature's finest all-rounders

  • 18 October 2004

V S Pritchett: a working life
Jeremy Treglown Chatto & Windus, 308pp, £25
ISBN 070117322X

The sum of his books. Edward Said denounced V S Naipaul as a "native informer", and even his warmest admirers have struggled to defend his recent inflammatory utterances. But surely no one can deny that he is one of the world's greatest writers, argues Geoffrey wheatcroft

  • 02 February 2004

Literary Occasions: essays by V S Naipaul
Introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra Picador, 204pp, £16.99
ISBN 0330420224

The supreme German. Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Albert Speer, a man without moral conviction or ideology, who should have hanged at Nuremberg

  • 05 November 2001

Speer: the final verdict
Joachim Fest, translated by Ewald Osers Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 427pp, £20
ISBN 0297646168

Who killed Dr Glock? "Archaeology is not a science, it is a vendetta." Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the assassination of an American who became caught up in the land disputes of the Middle East

  • 06 August 2001

Palestine Twilight: the murder of Dr Albert Glock and the archaeology of the Holy Land
Edward Fox HarperCollins, 283pp, £19.99
ISBN 0002556073

The New Statesman Essay - The press and the swinish multitude

  • 11 December 2000

Can those who look down on the popular papers really call themselves the workers' friends?

Ring of fire

  • 20 November 2000

Wagner and Philosophy
Bryan Magee Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 416pp, £20
ISBN 0713994800

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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