Margaret Drabble
Articles by Margaret Drabble
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Art
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.
Poetry
Mummy's boy
- 18 September 2006
In the Blood: a memoir of my childhood Andrew Motion Faber & Faber, 326pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571228038
OLD Media
The age of publicity
- 12 June 2006
The Year of Henry James David Lodge Harvill Secker, 332pp, £18.99 ISBN 1846550033
Books
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
Books
True stories. Have you ever wondered who the Franks were, or failed to distinguish the Habsburgs from the Hohenzollerns? A children's book written 70 years ago answers these and many other questions. Margaret Drabble takes a charming tour through the past
- 26 September 2005
A Little History of the World E H Gombrich; translated by Caroline Mustill Yale University Press, 304pp, £14.99 ISBN 0300108834
Diary - Margaret Drabble
- 08 August 2005
Somebody - I think it was a naughty boy - threw an egg at me. "Good shot!" I cried, in cowardly appeasement, and then booked my ticket out of town
Society
The backward look
- 16 May 2005
The Power of Delight: a lifetime in literature - essays, 1962-2002 John Bayley; selected by Leo Carey Duckworth, 677pp, £25 ISBN 0715633120
Culture
A floating world
- 01 March 2004
Prunella Clough relished the strange and ephemeral, preferring wastelands and industrial imagery to conventionally pretty landscapes. Margaret Drabble looks back at one of art's more elusive figures
Books
Upstairs, downstairs
- 25 August 2003
The Victorian House Judith Flanders HarperCollins, 476pp, £20 ISBN 0007131887
