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Remembering the postmodern Paul Auster

Obituaries

Books

Remembering the postmodern Paul Auster

His personal life was eventful, as any good writer’s should be

Alexander Larman

Europe will be duller without Silvio Berlusconi

He blurred the lines between showbusiness and politics until they became all but invisible

Nigel Jones

Tina Turner was greater than a rock star

She was something much more universal: a survivor

Christopher Sandford

My brother, Jeremy Clarke

I can’t believe he managed to write his weekly column for The Spectator, even on his deathbed

James Clarke

Books

Martin Amis’s confrontational genius

Not many novelists, even the very greatest, have a career that lasts fifty years

Philip Hensher

Books
January 13, 2023
The best of Paul Johnson
The late author wrote a Spectator column from 1981 to 2009
The Spectator
Music
December 13, 2022
Angelo Badalamenti, the maestro of mystery
Every producer knew that his work would always be peerless
Alexander Larman
Film
October 13, 2022
Angela Lansbury was so much more than Murder, She Wrote
Her passing demands a reflection on a stunning career
Alexander Larman
Russia
August 30, 2022
Gorbachev was no saint. But he was a kind of hero
The former general secretary of the Soviet Union ushered in the new world
Mark Galeotti
Film
March 15, 2022
William Hurt — a life in two acts
His life and work were more than Marvel movies
Alexander Larman
Art
January 23, 2019
Russell Baker and Masterpiece Journalism
The absence of directness in modern American journalism reflects the cowardice and complicity of the journalists
Dominic Green
Books
December 28, 2018
Amos Oz, a giant of Israeli literature and politics
In Oz’s novels, the materiality of politics dominates the waking day, and the dreams and nightmares of literature the sleepless nights
Dominic Green

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