Margaret Drabble
Articles by Margaret Drabble
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Fiction
Perpetuity
- 11 July 2011
A tale of temptation, disappointment and breaking free, written exclusively for the New Statesman.
Fiction
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.
Books
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.
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











