The Jesus Diaries
Sir: I suspect that Hugh Burnett may be un- justified in his criticism of Paul Johnson (Letters, 12 November). Many Biblical critics would argue that the conversations contained......
Sir: Discussing The 'best Novels Of Our Time' Business, Paul
Johnson ('Literary sil- ly season', 12 November) asks rhetorically, 'Who but Miss Howard would have selected Elizabeth Taylor's little-known Angel?' Well I would, for one. The......
Letters
Best novels? Sir: The story behind the Observer's story on the Book Marketing Council's 'Best Novels of our Time' stunt is even sillier than Mr Paul Johnson (12 November)......
Sir: We Refer To The Latter Part Of The Article
by Richard West entitled 'The Bridport dagger' in your issue of 1 October. In a series of unsubstantiated comments based mainly on hearsay Richard West manages to malign all......
Bridport Strikes Back
Sir: A scurrilous article recently appeared in your paper entitled 'The Bridport dagger' (1 October) under the name of a Richard West. 1 am suprised that the Spectator has sunk......
Tolstoy's Flight
Sir: Count Nikolai Tolstoy deceives himself. He has not written 'a low-key and in part ironical approach' to Tolstoy's flight. He does not possess the literary resource. His......
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