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

Cricket's revolution

The Ashes and globalisation

The empire strikes back

Ziauddin Sardar

Move over viagra

Put a little spice in your box

Religion

Does God hate women?

Does God Hate Women?

Art

Medals of dishonour

Pin the blame on them

James Macintyre

Cameron the bully?

A fresh approach?

Canada

The new dope lords

Traffic out of control

Television

Revelations

Revelations: How to Find God

Travel

Brussels and surrealism

Nothing is as it seems

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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