William Cook

Arts & Culture

Club for heroes

• 21 January 2002

Music - William Cook on how the boys in skirts are back in town

Books

The dog that barked in the night. William Cook on the enduring appeal of The Hounds of the Baskervilles, 100 years after first publication

• 17 December 2001

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Penguin, £4.99
ISBN 014043786X

Arts & Culture

Local currency

• 19 November 2001

Money - William Cook on how regional interests gave way to national myths on our banknotes

Politics

It's time we moved on from the Holocaust

• 29 October 2001

To outsiders, Berlin is the city of the Final Solution. But in truth, the German capital is host to the fastest-growing Jewish community in the world, reports William Cook

Arts & Culture

Postcards from abroad

• 22 October 2001

Art - William Cook discovers that Turner is prized in Germany

Politics

The improbable hero

• 16 April 2001

His German grandfather was a feckless husband and a lousy father, but when William Cook began digging into his family history, he discovered a surprising and heroic episode

Goodbye to all that

• 26 March 2001

Film - William Cook welcomes the return of our favourite romance and its famous station

Politics

The enchanted city finds a new kind of beauty

• 12 February 2001

Sixty years ago, Dresden was bombed to rubble. William Cook visits the home of his German ancestors

Books

Novel of the week

• 04 December 2000

Too Far Afield
Gunter Grass Faber & Faber, 672pp, £25
ISBN 0571190162

Books

Guilty secrets

• 16 October 2000

The German Trauma: experiences and reflections 1938-2000
Gitta Sereny Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 400pp, £20
ISBN 0713994568