George Walden
Articles by George Walden
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Arts & Culture
The last laugh
- 17 November 2003
The sitcom Coupling, hailed as the British Friends, has been axed by US TV bosses after just four episodes. Little wonder, writes George Walden. Compared with the best American shows, our comedy is too often outmoded, parochial and patronising
Books
Back to Blighty. Martin Amis's latest novel marks a return to form and familiar territory. While it might seem we've been here before, his manic humour is a welcome change from the prevailing literary pietism, writes George Walden
- 08 September 2003
Yellow Dog
Martin Amis Jonathan Cape, 340pp, £16.99
ISBN 0224050613
Ideas
The wavering gaze. In her 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag suggested that our sympathy for suffering is diminished by a vulgar profusion of images. That is not her view today. George Walden on an intellectual at odds with her more sceptical self
- 11 August 2003
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, 117pp, £12.99
ISBN 0241142075
Politics
Storming the Bastille, at any price
- 18 September 2000
Fuel protesters beware! The French way of direct action could ruin us
Books
Manic Magyar
- 31 January 2000
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
Tibor Fischer Secker & Warburg, 224pp, £10
ISBN 0436220822
Politics
The Simpsons - Better than a Booker any time
- 22 November 1999
The nineties - High art is no good, but a popular cartoon has originality, wit, truth and technical brilliance
Ideas
The NS Essay - A culture of pretence
- 17 May 1999
The British, far from enjoying a renaissance, are living a second childhood. George Walden thinks we should grow up and stop boasting
Books
Commentary - Footloose in La-La land
- 26 April 1999
Great bookshops and galleries, sunshine and starlets - George Waldenlolls in LA
Politics
Why Einstein should rule the waves
- 05 February 1999
George Waldensees, in plans for a new radio station, left-right unity against a soggy middle
Books
Prisons of desire
- 11 December 1998
Adultery and Other Diversions
Tim Parks Secker & Warburg, 136pp, £12.99
