George Walden

Articles by George Walden

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Mincing with Mugabe

  • 12 June 2008
  • 1 comment

Observations of Zimbabwe

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

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

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
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Mark Twain: a life Ron Powers Scribner, 715pp, £25 ISBN 0743248996

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

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

The human wasteland

  • 18 July 2005

The People’s Act of Love James Meek Canongate, 391pp, £12.99 ISBN 1841956546

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

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

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?

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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