Simon Akam

Articles by Simon Akam

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McSweeney’s 30

  • 25 June 2009

Short cuts to success

Spirit of the woods

  • 25 June 2009

Simon Akam experiences the calm of an artists’ retreat in upstate New York with an impressive visitors’ book

Old wound, same pain

  • 11 June 2009

The conquest of the Wild West left North America’s first inhabitants scattered, diseased and broken. Can they find a panacea at the gambling table?

Somewhere not here

  • 16 April 2009

Journey Into Space Toby Litt Penguin, 243pp, £7.99

Tsars in their eyes

  • 19 February 2009

The Coronation Boris Akunin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 311pp, £16.99

Peak practice

  • 12 February 2009
  • 1 comment

Cycling in mountainous, jagged Norway is not for the faint-hearted, as Simon Akam discovers

Mad about the boy

  • 05 February 2009

The Great Lover Jill Dawson Sceptre, 320pp, £12.99

São Paulo: the brand

  • 29 January 2009

Heliopolis James Scudamore Harvill Secker, 288pp, £12.99

Dancing in Harlem's streets

  • 05 November 2008
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As the US strolls into a brighter future Simon Akam enjoyed the historic moment in Harlem as black and white Americans celebrated the election of Barack Obama to be president

''We're still fighting the Civil War here"

  • 30 October 2008

Virginia, a former slave state and Republican stronghold, could help secure the presidency for Barack Obama if thousands of unregistered and disenfranchised black voters can be mobilised

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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