Jan Morris

Articles by Jan Morris

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When the living is easy

  • 20 August 2001

Summer Special - Jan Morris remembers an idyllic summer of gatecrashing and fantasy

Southern soul

  • 02 July 2001

Don Quixote's Delusions: travels in Castilian Spain Miranda France Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 243pp, £20 ISBN 0297842773

Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles. Berlin is the most loathed, feared and resented of all capitals. Can it escape the burden of its past and reinvent itself as one of the world's great cities? By Jan Morris

  • 02 April 2001

Berlin: a modern history David Clay Large Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 706pp, £25 ISBN 046502646X

The Lady of Camelot. Jan Morris on the sordid, selfish, greedy and squalid influences that blighted the life of the twice-widowed Jackie Kennedy

  • 20 November 2000

America's Queen: the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Sarah Bradford Viking, 701pp, £20 ISBN 0670874221

America's queen mother. Franklin D Roosevelt's "missus" had a complicated and secretive private life. Jan Morris celebrates a feminist icon and tireless campaigner for good causes

  • 24 July 2000

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II 1933-1938 Blanche Wiesen Cook Bloomsbury, 686pp, £30 ISBN 074754980X

Chicago is like America on a propaganda film, with every colour, age, language and class on the sidewalk

  • 13 December 1999

Put your money on Dragon Dull . . . but how much better if Dragon Dreamer could win, creating a small republic scoured of Anglo-American greed

  • 09 August 1999

Wales: A Question for History Dai Smith Seren, 216pp, £12.95 ISBN 1854111256 The Welsh Illusion Patrick Hannan Seren, 168pp, £8.95 Wales for Beginners Jeff Fallow Writers & Readers, 170pp, £7.99

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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