Robert Winder

Articles by Robert Winder

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A warrior of words. The simple fact of his being the son of a famous writer lifted Martin Amis to the upper slopes of celebrity. His own haughty talent kept him there. But how good is he? By Robert Winder

  • 23 April 2001

The War Against Cliche Martin Amis Jonathan Cape, 506pp, £20 ISBN 0224050591

Wrong but wromantic

  • 12 February 2001

England: the making of the myth Maureen Duffy Fourth Estate, 274pp, £13.99 ISBN 1841151661

For successful sport, you need a diet of rice and fish

  • 05 February 2001

How Michael Jordan disproved a Marxist theory

  • 29 January 2001

Why Sven should not dream of glory

  • 22 January 2001

A family affair. Robert Winder reads a new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, the first for 40 years, and wonders what happened to the flash and glitter of the book he loved

  • 08 January 2001

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, translated and edited by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 864pp, £20 ISBN 0713994606

Robert Winder on Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book

  • 27 November 2000

The slave of unknown masters. Saul Bellow is a great writer but, according to his biographer, a bad man. Robert Winder on the glittering work and often tawdry private life of the American novelist

  • 23 October 2000

Bellow: a biography James Atlas Faber & Faber, 704pp, £25 ISBN 0571143563

Mass man

  • 25 September 2000

The New Elites: making a career in the masses George Walden Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 209pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713993170

Clean mac brigade

  • 28 August 2000

Holistic Revolution Edited by William Bloom Allen Lane, 416pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713994215 Lives of the Psychics Fred M Frohock University of Chicago Press, 264pp, £17.50 Out of My Mind Richard Bach Pan, 112pp, £5.99

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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