William Cook

Articles by William Cook

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Back to the future

  • 11 August 2003

Postwar sci-fi TV serials such as Dr Who might have seemed far-fetched and fantastical, but they accurately reflected a troubled age

Building bridges

  • 14 July 2003

Art - William Cook on the rise and fall of an important but neglected German painter

The best of Baghdad

  • 28 April 2003

Gallery - William Cook discovers an outpost of Iraqi creativity on Fulham High Street

For ever young

  • 10 March 2003

Reputations - William Cook celebrates a jobbing genius who elevated children's illustration into art

Incapable of compromise

  • 10 February 2003

Dangerous Waters: the life and death of Erskine Childers Leonard Piper Hambledon and London, 261pp, £19.95 ISBN 1852853921

"I die loving England"

  • 16 December 2002

William Cook rereads The Riddle of the Sands, "the first spy novel"

What a carve-up

  • 02 September 2002

Comedy - William Cook on the kind hearts who saved Ealing studios

Film - Holmes, sweet Holmes

  • 26 August 2002

William Cook watches a once talented director feed off his own corpse

A bit of rough

  • 24 June 2002

Architecture week - William Cook explains why brutalism, that most provocative assault on suburban sentiment, is now cherished again

Our darkest knight

  • 22 April 2002

St George: Patron Saint of England Christopher Stace Triangle, 99pp, £7.99 ISBN 0281054150

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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