V S Pritchett
Articles by V S Pritchett
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Books
The most honest writer alive
- 28 May 2009
The original New Statesman review of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society
Hedgehogs and foxes
- 19 March 2008
Taken from The New Statesman 20 January 1978 Pritchett was a distinguished book reviewer and essayist at the New Statesman for more than 30 years. In this article, he reviewed the first of four volumes that brought together the scattered writings of Sir Isaiah Berlin. The book dealt with many of the influential 19th-century Russian intelligentsia – most notably Turgenev, Bakunin and Herzen – whose opinions on life and politics Berlin sought to explain to a western audience. Selected by Robert Taylor
