John Mullan
Articles by John Mullan
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Ideas
Guessing games
- 07 February 2008
John Mullan recalls that curiosity and concealment have a grand literary history
Books
Power politics
- 26 February 2007
The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - scoundrel, genius and Britain's first prime minister Edward Pearce Jonathan Cape, 496pp, £25 ISBN 0224071815
Culture
Life drawing
- 06 November 2006
City of Laughter: sex and satire in 18th-century London Vic Gatrell Atlantic Books, 696pp, £30 ISBN 1843543214 Our national obsession with political sleaze and celebrity misbehaviour is nothing new. John Mullan on the scurrilous ancestors of Scarfe, Steadman and Spitting Image
Books
Critical faculties
- 01 May 2006
Incredible Bodies Ian McGuire Bloomsbury, 372pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747578478
Books
Tangled web
- 20 March 2006
The Helmet of Horror Victor Pelevin Canongate, 288pp, £12 ISBN 1841957054
Books
Fiction - Young pretender
- 30 January 2006
The Third Brother Nick McDonell Atlantic Books, 267pp, £10.99 ISBN 1843544776
Books
Fiction - The weight of history
- 26 September 2005
Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape, 398pp, £17.99 ISBN 0224061615









