George Walden
Articles by George Walden
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Europe
Diary: George Walden
- 16 October 2008
'Generally wine in Moscow is what philosophers call a category mistake: vodka and beer are best, and nowadays every brand of the latter is available'
Books
Man of many parts
- 29 May 2006
John Osborne: a patriot for us John Heilpern Chatto & Windus, 528pp, £25 ISBN 0701167807 Despite his reputation as a rebel, John Osborne spent his life playing stock British characters: the angry young man, the teddy boy, the country squire. George Walden on a writer who, for all his immense linguistic gifts, could never simply be himself
Books
American beauty. John Updike, whose second love was painting, sees his nation's art as a spiritual struggle on a grand scale. George Walden argues that we must keep its achievements in perspective
- 06 March 2006
Still Looking: essays on American art John Updike Hamish Hamilton, 222pp, £25 ISBN 0241143357
North America
An American in a hurry. Mark Twain was in permanent overdrive, always searching for his next big break. George Walden looks back on a restless genius whose life embodied that of the country he came from
- 06 February 2006
Mark Twain: a life Ron Powers Scribner, 715pp, £25 ISBN 0743248996
Books
Out of gear. George Walden on a writer whose sympathies were too broad to be constrained by the cliquishness of English life
- 14 November 2005
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess Andrew Biswell Picador, 434pp, £20 ISBN 0330481703
