William Cook

Articles by William Cook

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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

The return of the easy rider

  • 29 March 2004

The Raleigh Chopper, like the Space Hopper and the platform heel, was a triumph of form over function. The relaunch of this 1970s classic comes too late for William Cook, who would have kissed more girls and done less work if only he'd been allowed to have one

Picture post

  • 26 January 2004

As he celebrates his 75th birthday, Tintin's international celebrity shows no sign of waning. His escapades as the world's most famous foreign correspondent have elevated the comic book to high art, and provided a chronicle of the 20th century

National healing

  • 19 January 2004

Art - William Cook examines the role of artists in the cultural reconstruction of Iraq

Old Romantics

  • 15 December 2003

Music 2003 - William Cook recalls the era of miners' strikes, hair mousse and great pop music

Manhattan boulevard

  • 17 November 2003

Cinema - William Cook goes in search of Woody Allen's New York and discovers a European fantasy

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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