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Articles by William Cook

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The making of a Jew

  • 26 June 2006
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Sigmund Freud's cultural identity was central to the man and his work, finds William Cook

Tribal gathering

  • 08 May 2006

Photography - William Cook on an exhibition that charts the tragic demise of America’s indigenous past

Small town boy

  • 17 April 2006

We are used to thinking of Rembrandt van Rijn as Holland's greatest painter, yet as a young man he wasn't even the top artist in the small town of Leiden. William Cook revisits the master's early struggles

Overdrawn

  • 27 March 2006

Art - William Cook on the artist who came to hate his best-known creation

The legacy of Bedazzled

  • 25 July 2005

Comedy - The DVD release of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's finest flick reveals why the career of one man soared . . . and the other's didn't, according to their biographer William Cook

Fiction - Diary of a nobody

  • 25 October 2004

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sue Townsend Michael Joseph, 460pp, £16.99
IDBN 0718146891

Absolutely ripping. As the biography of an elusive literary type is published, William Cook eavesdrops on a remarkable conversation

  • 20 September 2004

Wodehouse: a life
Robert McCrum Viking, 530pp, £20
ISBN 0670896926

Novel man

  • 28 June 2004

James Bond - William Cook on how Ian Fleming's 007 books are finally catching up with the films

Escape artists

  • 26 April 2004

Exhibition - William Cook on the remarkable flourishing of children's art in a concentration camp

Letter from a lost world

  • 12 April 2004

Scouting for Boys
Robert Baden-Powell Oxford University Press, 382pp, £12.99
ISBN 0192805479

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