Jan Morris
Articles by Jan Morris
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Books
Flesh and filth
- 19 May 2003
Elizabeth's London Liza Picard Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 342pp, £20 ISBN 0297607294
World Affairs
The imperial meaning. Jan Morris on a fine new book about a heroic wartime defence of an outpost of empire
- 05 May 2003
Fortress Malta: an island under siege (1940-1943) James Holland Orion, 440pp, £20 ISBN 0752852884
Life & Society
Letter from New York
- 14 April 2003
Jan Morris visits Manhattan for the 50th time, and finds it tinged with pathos and closer in spirit to the rest of America
Life & Society
Take me somewhere good
- 10 February 2003
Which of the six nominated UK cities will become the European Capital of Culture 2008? Jan Morris finds Cardiff as earthy and merry as ever, but alive with a new aspirational energy
Culture
The Miller's tale
- 13 January 2003
Photography - Jan Morris is unmoved by a collection of portraits lacking the "flash of poetry"
Diary - Jan Morris
- 15 July 2002
I asked the most elderly person I saw in Manchester to direct me to the Guardian offices where I once worked. He looked at me as though I were Rip Van Winkle
Books
Victory or death
- 17 June 2002
Bismarck David J Bercuson and Holger H Herwig Hutchinson, 385pp, £18.99 ISBN 0091795168
Books
Don't be ashamed to go on a bus tour. Alain de Botton may be a virtuoso of the obvious, but he is also a writer of considerable wit and charm. Jan Morris on our very own "philosopher of travel"
- 06 May 2002
The Art of Travel Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, 272pp, £14.99 ISBN 0241140102
Books
The man who would be king. Noble and insufferable, arrogant and generous, blimp and radical in one person - such is the ambiguous popular reputation of Kipling half a century after his death. By Jan Morris
- 04 March 2002
The Long Recessional: the imperial life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour John Murray, 351pp, £22.50 ISBN 0712665188
Books
Worldly innocence. Jan Morris celebrates the life and work of Penelope Fitzgerald, whose first book has just been reissued
- 28 January 2002
The Knox Brothers Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, 288pp, £7.99 ISBN 0007118309
