Rebecca Abrams

Articles by Rebecca Abrams

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Commentary - A master of miniaturism

  • 11 June 2001

Rebecca Abrams on Elizabeth Taylor, one of the great neglected voices of English fiction

Let's all go out to play

  • 13 November 2000

Our obsession with work is such that it infects even our children's lives. Rebecca Abrams demands more fun and an end to the work ethic

Novel of the week

  • 16 October 2000

Only Human
Jenny Diski Virago, 215pp, £14.99
ISBN 1860498396

Showing the Shoah

  • 17 July 2000

Is it possible to represent the Holocaust without falsifying it? Is it an experience that should ever be aestheticised? Rebecca Abrams on the problems of showing the Shoah

A family affair

  • 26 June 2000

The Parent Trap: children, families and the new morality
Maureen Freely Virago, 245pp, £10.99
ISBN 1860497020

Lost girl

  • 29 May 2000

The Sappho Companion
Margaret Reynolds Chatto & Windus, 422pp, £25
ISBN 0701165863

Damned to fame

  • 17 April 2000

The Hite Report on Shere Hite: voice of a daughter in exile
Shere Hite Arcadia, 327pp, £20
ISBN 1900850052

Why a second child spells ruin

  • 28 February 2000

There's a mother gap as well as a gender gap at work. One child is bad enough; another could rob you of half your lifetime earnings. By Rebecca Abrams

The reluctant redundant

  • 31 January 2000

Mr Phillips
John Lanchester Faber & Faber, 247pp, £16.99
ISBN 057120161X

The female gaze

  • 10 January 2000

Ten more important novels of the British century

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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