John Gray
Articles by John Gray
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Books
Fiction special - Draughtman's contract. Graham Greene thought that Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy could never be rendered into film form. The BBC's recent adaptation of this great epic proves him wrong
- 14 February 2000
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake Vintage, 953pp, £12.99
ISBN 0099284383
The Art of Gormenghast
Estelle Daniel HarperCollins and BBC, 160pp, £14.99
Books
Little Scotlander - Tom Nairn's nationalism is stuck in the past, argues John Gray. In his desire to forecast the collapse of the union he seems scarcely to have noticed the country Britain has become
- 24 January 2000
After Britain: New Labour and the return of Scotland
Tom Nairn Granta, 324pp, £15.99
ISBN 1862072930
Politics
Post-politics - It's not the economy, stupid!
- 22 November 1999
The nineties - Fox-hunting, GM food, the environment - the political parties have not kept up with public values
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Machines maketh man. Public faith in science has never been stronger - yet the products of the scientific imagination elude attempts at public control
- 23 August 1999
Visions of Technology
Richard Rhodes (editor) Simon & Schuster, 400pp, £20
ISBN 0684839032
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Modernity and its discontents. J G Ballard has never staked out a political position. But his fiction foresaw a world in which television images of fame and death were to become all-powerful
- 10 May 1999
Crash: David Cronenberg's Post-Mortem on J G Ballard's "Trajectory of Fate"
Iain Sinclair, British Film Institute Modern Classics, BFI Publishing, 122pp, £7.99
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The myth of progress
- 09 April 1999
Our faith in technology shows that we still believe in magic, argues John Gray
Books
Thatcher's friend
- 19 February 1999
Essays, Moral, Political and Economic
Samuel Brittan The David Hume Institute: Hume Papers on Public Policy, Vol 6 No 4, Edinburgh University Press, 113pp, £9.95
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Monopolies of loss
- 20 November 1998
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, 356pp, £20
