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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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