Lynn Barber

Articles by Lynn Barber

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Flying colours

  • 16 June 2003

Joshua Reynolds: the life and times of the first president of the Royal Academy Ian McIntyre The Penguin Press, 600pp, £30 ISBN 0713993294

At the feet of genius. Edwin Lutyens may have been dumpy, of lowly birth and hopeless in bed, but his wife revered him. Lynn Barber on the life and marriage of a once pre-eminent designer

  • 24 June 2002

The Architect and his Wife: a life of Edwin Lutyens Jane Ridley Chatto & Windus, 488pp, £25 ISBN 0701172010

In pursuit of beautiful moments. Peggy Guggenheim was profligate with sex, economical with love, and completely unpredictable about money. Lynn Barber on a grand and chaotic public life

  • 05 November 2001

Peggy Guggenheim: the life of an art addict Anton Gill HarperCollins, 506pp, £25 ISBN 0002570785

More sinner than saint. She may be the people's politician, but Lynn Barber finds that Mo Mowlam is sadly lacking in "people skills" and has few admirers among close colleagues

  • 09 October 2000

Mo Mowlam: the biography Julia Langdon Little, Brown, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316853046

Digging in the dirt. What lay behind the brutal visions of Francis Bacon? Lynn Barber ventures into the twilight world of a father-fixated, homosexual sado-masochist

  • 12 June 2000

Looking back at Francis Bacon David Sylvester Thames & Hudson, 272pp, £29.95 ISBN 0500019940

Every morning, I found my father staring, then heard words such as "I can feel her spreading hot sauce on me"

  • 21 June 1999

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

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Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

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