Robert Hanks

Articles by Robert Hanks

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Who’d have thought it

  • 20 August 2009

Penguin’s Great Ideas series is too Eurocentric, too male – but at least it’s made it cool to pull a volume of Edmund Burke from your pocket.

Socialism and suspense

  • 25 June 2009

Eric Ambler was born a century ago, but the morally compromised world of his left-wing thrillers is still very familiar today.

Deliver us from evil

  • 05 March 2009

The Post Office Girl Stefan Zweig Sort Of Books, 265pp, £7.99

Hard to care about

  • 29 January 2009

The Last Bachelor Jay McInerney Bloomsbury, 216pp, £12.99

Dazzling digressions

  • 22 January 2009

2666 Roberto Bolaño Picador, 898pp, £20

Killingly funny

  • 15 January 2009

And Then There Was No One Gilbert Adair Faber & Faber, 272pp, £14.99

Eastern approaches

  • 20 November 2008

The China Lover Ian Buruma Atlantic Books, 320pp, £15.99

Ruffian on the stair

  • 18 September 2008

Indignation Philip Roth Jonathan Cape, 256pp, £16.99

Compare and contrast

  • 21 August 2008

Amis and Son: Two Literary Generations Neil Powell Macmillan, 448pp, £20

Fools and madmen

  • 22 May 2008

The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry Faber & Faber, 320pp, £16.99

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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