William Cook

Articles by William Cook

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Goodbye to all that

  • 26 March 2001

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

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

Novel of the week

  • 04 December 2000

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

Guilty secrets

  • 16 October 2000

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

Passion parade

  • 02 October 2000

Every ten years, half a million visitors flock to a tiny Bavarian village to watch a medieval mystery play. William Cook makes the pilgrimage

It's no joke

  • 11 September 2000

Political prisoners - William Cook on two Burmese comics imprisoned for spreading "false news"

The long drawn-out struggle

  • 26 June 2000
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The walls of Northern Ireland provide a unique visual map to its political and cultural battles. William Cook takes a tour of the murals of Belfast

Dead or alive?

  • 15 May 2000

Westerns - William Cook mourns the decline of TV's American cowboys

He who dares

  • 01 May 2000

William Cook looks back to when Britannia ruled the waves and Dan Dare ruled the galaxies

Back in print

  • 17 April 2000

The Devil's Tinderbox: Dresden 1945 Alexander McKee Souvenir Press, 334pp, £12.99 ISBN 0285635476

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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