Articles By Allan Massie
March 2012
Book reviews of Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters translated & edited by Michael Hofmann and Three Lives, a Biography of Stefan Zweig by Oliver Matuschek, translated by Allan Blunden
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November 2011
The biographer of Dr Johnson's gift to posterity was to establish the latter as one of English literature's towering figures
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November 2011
The mawkish cult of Rabbie distracts us from the beauty of the Scottish poet's exquisite verse
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July/August 2011
A new short story
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May 2011
Book review of A Man of Parts by David Lodge
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October 2010
He is an 18th-century deist with a message for today's aggressive atheists: religion has a social value, and saves us from the return to a Hobbesian state of nature
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July/August 2010
A short story
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April 2010
Allan Massie salutes Sir Walter Scott, master of historical fiction and author of among others, Rob Roy and Waverley
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January/February 2010
The editor of the Literary Review deserves praises for giving its writers a free hand — as long as they do not succumb to puffery and hype
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November 2009
Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias
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October 2009
Lustrum by Robert Harris
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September 2009
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
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June 2009
Scottish devolution is now a fact of life. But the Union is still in Scotland’s interests, despite the rise of nationalism
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September 2008
The humiliation of 1940 has cast a baleful shadow over France's postwar history. Can Nicolas Sarkozy, the first president too young to be tainted by it, usher in a new era?
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August 2008
Boxing, A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
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July 2008
The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper
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About Allan Massie
Allan Massie has written some twenty novels and a number of non-fiction books, including The Thistle and the Rose, a study of Anglo-Scottish relations. He writes a fortnightly column, "Life & Letters", for the Spectator.
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