George Walden
Articles by George Walden
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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?
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Death and glory. A new film humanises Hitler; Prince Harry wears a swastika to a party; a musical pokes fun at the Fuhrer. There is always something we have to remember, writes George Walden, except the enormity of Nazi evil itself
- 31 January 2005
The End: Hamburg 1943
Hans Erich Nossack University of Chicago Press, 87pp, £14
ISBN 0226595560
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Why the truth gets you nowhere. "The point of argument is not to be right, but to win": from a melancholic 19th-century philosopher, a true text for our times. George Walden on the rhetorical shamelessness that pervades public life
- 01 January 2005
The Art of Always Being Right Arthur Schopenhauer; with an introduction by A C Grayling Gibson Square Books, 190pp, £9.99 ISBN 1903933617
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A burnt-out case. The story of a vain sexual adventurer told by an assassin of language - George Walden on why Graham Greene got the biographer he deserved
- 25 October 2004
The Life of Graham Greene: volume three (1955-1991) Norman Sherry Jonathan Cape, 906pp, £25 ISBN 0224059742
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The truth about Henry. George Walden wonders if, rather than attempting the awesome feat of fictionalising Henry James's life, David Lodge should have stuck to conventional biography
- 06 September 2004
Author, Author David Lodge Secker & Warburg, 389pp, £16.99 ISBN 0436205270
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Commentary
- 02 August 2004
It may be less lucrative than its British counterpart and its sponsor may be languishing in jail. But, writes George Walden, the Russian Booker Prize is still dedicated to serious literature
