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The Review - BOOKS
Published: 11 January 2007
 
The eccentric Prof who lit up literature

With an open marriage, wild parties and
shoe-burning lectures, William Empson was not your average professor of English, writes Piers Plowright


SHEFFIELD, mid 1950s, the new Professor of English Literature at the University... > more
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My life of betting on the Dow Jones stakes
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When one thief looted the treasury… in 1303
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A hurdy-gurdy of musical madness
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A Dickens of a character
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Pick up a Penguin, or a Bob Dylan... - PETER Stothard is the former editor of The Times and the current editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is also on the... > more

Michael’s fantasy island for kids and grown-ups
- IT is perhaps not surprising to find one of our greatest children’s writers has shared his home with hundreds of... > more

The last of the fierce, individual history boys
- THE last time I saw him he was hurrying down Hampstead Road looking more than ever like the White Rabbit in the... > more

Funnyman Griff’s journey to his past
- IT is remarkable how objective history is, says Griff Rhys Jones. “It is an obvious point,” he says, “but one which really came... > more

The women who are far from veiled
- IF you believe what you read then you probably imagine Arab women are quiet victims of oppressive, hopelessly... > more

Who’s ever heard of Mr Virginia Woolf? - THE only time I met the famous art critic Kenneth Clark (Lord Clark of Civilisation), he told me that for him there were... > more

The twelve days which shook Victor’s world - HUNGARY and Hampstead play a vital role in the life of Victor Sebestyen. It was in Budapest that he was born... > more

The enigma that was Katharine Hepburn - WE were sitting in the Californian sunshine, Spencer Tracy and I, in orange canvas chairs outside a Bel-Air mansion... > more

Send in the clowns – but no elephants - ONCE upon a time there was a circus, which had no performing animals apart from a duck who would quack to the sound... > more

Romeo and Juliet who fled the Nazis in a boat - MICHAEL Arditti did not set out to write a parable. But his new novel A Sea Change is more than just a love story. > more

A true free spirit of the Middle East - BOMBS over Beirut, bullets across Baghdad: Abdelrahman Munif must be wailing in his grave. > more

Victorian masses and leisure principle - THE consumer society, says Judith Flanders, starts here. With the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was launched, to the... > more

The dutiful daughter of our greatest writer - SHE was the third child of ten, the second daughter of England’s greatest novelist and social campaigner... > more
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