Henry Hitchings

Articles by Henry Hitchings

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A wicked way with words

  • 11 September 2006

Histories of our language used to focus on "standard English". Now, writes Henry Hitchings, they are as likely to draw on rap and advertising as on Keats and Milton

Don't look back

  • 15 May 2006

The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven Alan Warner Jonathan Cape, 390pp, £11.99 ISBN 0224071297

Last supper

  • 20 February 2006

A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the great modernist dinner party of 1922 Richard Davenport-Hines Faber & Faber, 358pp, £14.99 ISBN 0571220088

Two's company, three's a crowd

  • 17 October 2005

As "Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec" opens at Tate Britain, Henry Hitchings wonders about the artistic merits of the increasingly fashionable "combination" exhibition

Novel of the week

  • 23 April 2001

Landor's Tower Iain Sinclair Granta, 345pp, £15.99 ISBN 1862070180

Split personality

  • 16 October 2000

Romancing: the life and work of Henry Green Jeremy Treglown Faber & Faber, 340pp, £25 ISBN 0571168981

Poetic craving

  • 10 July 2000

Sidetracks Richard Holmes HarperCollins, 420pp, £19.99 ISBN 0002555786

No marmalade?

  • 28 February 2000

Philip Sidney: A Double Life Alan Stewart Chatto and Windus, 400pp, £20 ISBN 0701168595

Back in print

  • 08 November 1999

The Unfortunates B S Johnson Picador, £18.99 ISBN 0330353292

Fight the power

  • 01 November 1999

I'm a Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader Gerald Early Yellow Jersey Press, 299pp, £8 ISBN 0224059459 King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero David Remnick Picador, 326pp, £14.99

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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