16 May 2012 12:00 AM
Whatever one's political affiliation, Philip Gould, who died aged 61 in 2011, should be seen as an immensely talented man. As strategic advisor to Tony Blair, he worked tirelessly for New Labour. He was a visiting professor at the LSE, and author of a book on Labour's revival. When Gould was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2008, he was to embark on the most tumultuous yet fulfilling journey of his life.
15 May 2012 12:00 AM
Following At the Chime of a City Clock, this is D J Taylor's tenth novel and his second James Ross mystery. The narrator, Ross, is a déclassé ex-public schoolboy footloose in pre-war London who earns a crust (the idiom is catching) as a rent collector, nightclub doorman, aspiring poet, ladies' man and copper's nark.
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
Just a little too sweet for Western palates
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
On the origin of Darwin's famous idea
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
The quality of the writing allows us to know this extended clan, who are on a week's holiday, better than they know each other
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
A girl clutching a birdhouse on an evening lit by fireflies; another with a rhubarb leaf on her head; a woman clinging to a buoy in a flat blue sea: welcome to the weird, almost René Magritte-like inner world of the US-based photographer Cig Harvey.
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
Paradise lost: chronicle of one boy's life in a hippy commune
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
Mental life: the only reality we'll ever know
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
Deflecting blows: enduring life with a sadistic "Father"
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
Travelling gracelessly with A A Gill
12 May 2012 12:00 AM
From the etymology of pastrami (the under-saddle meat rations of "nomadic horse-archers") to ancient Ottoman terms such as adamsendecilik ("being messed around pointlessly by someone in authority"), Stone brings a linguist's delight as well a historian's sweep to this enjoyable, opinionated canter through the past of an adopted country he much admires.
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