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Did Dahl even like children?
January 02, 2023
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected Matthew Dennison Head of Zeus, £20, 264 pages Perhaps my favourite Roald Dahl story – and one not, alas, recounted by Matthew Dennison in his new biography of the author – comes in Kingsley Amis’s Memoirs. Amis encountered Dahl at an awkward 1970s literary party thrown by Tom Stoppard,
The smell of old books
December 02, 2022
Alexander Larman provides two reviews in one
The touching absurdity of beliefs
August 12, 2022
We like to believe that we are far too sophisticated in the modern era to worship totemic figures. Yet our perpetual obsession with celebrity, with status and with the trappings of financial and social success are in themselves a continual obsequiousness towards the falsest of gods.
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