Tim Parks
Articles by Tim Parks
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Ideas
Meditation rescued me from misanthropy
- 05 July 2010
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Religion is an easy target for atheists, but, as Tim Parks discovered, there’s no escaping that there’s more to life than rational thinking and the material world. He found the key on a Buddhist retreat in the countryside.
Politics
Special Report - Sin and be happy
- 03 April 2006
As Italians prepare to go to the polls, the author Tim Parks identifies a ritualistic sparring that is destroying his adopted home and the country he loves
Books
Forgotten favourites - Enchanted Isle. Tim Parks delights in a story of Mediterranean boyhood that tackles the debates of the postwar period, while seeming to exist outside history
- 01 December 2003
Arturo's Island Elsa Morante Translated by Isabel Quigley Steerforth Press, 368pp, £12.99 ISBN 1586420410
Culture
The altar of fire
- 16 June 2003
In a world without faith or metaphysics, we need a grand illusion like the European Union. Even with all their prevarications and no-shows, the British cannot cheat us out of this latter-day castle in the sky, argues Tim Parks
