George Walden
Articles by george walden
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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
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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
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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
SciTech
Eminently Victorian. A novel about the early history of psychiatry impresses George Walden with its diligence, but leaves him wondering if uprightness, sobriety and industry can ever produce more than decent fiction
- 05 September 2005
Human Traces
Sebastian Faulks Hutchinson, 615pp, £17.99
ISBN 0091794552
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The human wasteland
- 18 July 2005
The People’s Act of Love
James Meek Canongate, 391pp, £12.99
ISBN 1841956546
UK Politics
Everything but the truth. Our politicians are not up to much as liars, but by God they are good at bullshitting. The public complains, but actually wouldn't have it any other way. We rather like being fed crap, writes George Walden
- 09 May 2005
On Bullshit
Harry G Frankfurt Princeton University Press, 67pp, £6.50
ISBN 0691122946
The Rise of Political Lying
Peter Oborne Free Press, 317pp, £7.99
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Steel in his soul. Once, the English didn't dare mention the phallus; now that they have the right to use the word, they do so with a smirk. It was this national sickness that contorted and constricted D H Lawrence's great talent. By George Walden
- 14 March 2005
D H Lawrence: the life of an outsider
John Worthen Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 518pp, £30
ISBN 0713996137
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?
