Jonathan Meades
Articles by jonathan meades
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Arts & Culture
The last modern architect
- 15 May 2008
Richard Rogers's achievements as a maker of extraordinary buildings are in danger of being obscured by his status as a new Labour panjandrum
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Ideal homes exhibition
- 27 March 2008
Villages of Vision: a Study of Strange Utopias
Gillian Darley Five Leaves Publications, 341pp, £14.99
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How to misread Robbe-Grillet
- 06 March 2008
- 1 comment
Jonathan Meades on the supreme novelist of France's trente glorieuses
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Cities of dreams
- 28 February 2008
- 1 comment
Fifty per cent of the world's population now lives in cities. By 2050 it will be 75 per cent, so considering the urban future is important. We need more than platitudes
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In the name of God
- 09 October 2006
Sacred Causes: religion and politics from the European dictators to al-Qaeda
Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 557pp, £25
ISBN 0007195745
Arts & Culture
Monuments to the missing
- 17 July 2006
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Gavin Stamp Profile Books, 224pp, £14.99
ISBN 1904897606
Following the horrors of the Somme, architects set about commemorating the dead. Jonathan Meades salutes the timeless grandeur of Edwin Lutyens’s arch at Thiepval
Life & Society
Hunger pangs
- 05 June 2006
Bad Food Britain: how a nation ruined its appetite
Joanna Blythman Fourth Estate, 318pp, £7.99
ISBN 0007219946
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All in bad taste
- 24 April 2006
Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a food critic in disguise
Ruth Reichl Century, 333pp, £12.99
ISBN 0143036610
