Margaret Drabble

Articles by Margaret Drabble

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The Artist of Disappearance

  • 08 August 2011

Perpetuity

  • 11 July 2011

A tale of temptation, disappointment and breaking free, written exclusively for the New Statesman.

The Isles of the Blessed

  • 29 December 2010

Carol and Paul flee the London winter and the memory of a bad year by cruising to the Canaries for Christmas. A short story exclusively for the New Statesman by Margaret Drabble.

Margaret Drabble’s hopes for the New Year

  • 29 December 2010

Still lost in Austen

  • 21 June 2010

Jane Austen’s literary heirs are innumerable –– and her readers are ardent to the point of hysteria. But the author of Pride and Prejudice retains her mystery.

Dutch Courage

  • 18 January 2010
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The letters of Vincent Van Gogh show a man who craved intellectual companionship yet continued to dream, in defiance of loneliness.

Diary: Margaret Drabble

  • 03 September 2009

I may become addicted to athletics by 2012

Mummy's boy

  • 18 September 2006

In the Blood: a memoir of my childhood Andrew Motion Faber & Faber, 326pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571228038

The age of publicity

  • 12 June 2006

The Year of Henry James David Lodge Harvill Secker, 332pp, £18.99 ISBN 1846550033

The common reader

  • 17 April 2006

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel: what to read and how to write Jane Smiley Faber & Faber, 608pp, £16.99 ISBN 1400040590

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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