Robert Winder
Articles by robert winder
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A one-man avant-garde. B S Johnson was a byword for literary experimentation. His novels came with blackened pages, or had holes cut into them. Was this tormented figure of the 1960s a misunderstood genius, or merely a self-dramatising boor?
- 21 June 2004
Like a Fiery Elephant: the story of B S Johnson
Jonathan Coe Picador, 486pp, £20
ISBN 033035048X
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We speak, therefore we are. Is txtng the way 4ward 4 the Queen's English? Not at all. A surprise Christmas hit about punctuation shows that we are still sticklers about our language, writes Robert Winder
- 15 December 2003
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Lynne Truss, Profile, £9.99
ISBN 1861976127
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When the world was at one. According to the BBC broadcaster Nick Clarke, Britain is in cultural decline - and television is largely to blame. Is it really as bad as all that? By Robert Winder
- 09 June 2003
The Shadow of a Nation: the changing face of Britain
Nick Clarke Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 277pp, £20
ISBN 0297607707
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A place of greater safety. "In the whole of the 19th century, not a single person was refused entry to the United Kingdom." Robert Winder on the human urge to roam around the globe
- 07 April 2003
The Global Community: migration and the making of the modern world
W M Spellman Sutton Publishing, 247pp, £20
ISBN 0750922435
The Passport: the history of man's most travelled document
Martin Lloyd Sutton Publishing, 288pp, £9.99
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The unfortunate traveller. The late W G Sebald had the aura of a magician. But who was he? Why couldn't he live in his native Germany? And why do his books inspire such wonder? By Robert Winder
- 24 February 2003
On the Natural History of Destruction
W G Sebald Hamish Hamilton, 205pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241141265
Sport
Sport - Robert Winder on TV's cricket commentators
- 22 July 2002
A man with a sense of metaphor, poetry and even grammar has joined TV's cricket commentators - but can the old pros cope with him?
Sport
Sport - Robert Winder on the Big Brotherisation of sport
- 15 July 2002
It is the Big Brotherisation of tennis and other games: the question is not whether the players are any good or not, but whether we like them. ByRobert Winder
Sport
Sport - Robert Winder sets out new rules for football
- 08 July 2002
My rules for better football: no offside, best player to switch sides when his team is two goals up, and anyone who feigns serious injury to rest for 15 minutes
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The end of the world is, er . . . soon
- 27 May 2002
Nostradamus: the final prophecies
Luciano Sampietro Souvenir Press, 303pp, £10.99
ISBN 0285636391
Sport
Made in Govan
- 20 May 2002
The Boss: the many sides of Alex Ferguson
Michael Crick Simon & Schuster, 612pp, £17.99
ISBN 0743207483
