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Ian Sansom

Ian Sansom

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Books / Conning the booktrade connoisseurs

Literary scandals – like actual scandals – come and go. Who now recalls, or indeed cares less about, the hoo-ha surrounding whether or not the...

15.03.2024 2

The Spectator

Ian Sansom

Books / Four dangerous visionary writers

‘The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks… And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the...

16.02.2024 9

The Spectator

Ian Sansom

Books / Have we all become more paranoid since the pandemic?

As anyone who has ever been lucky enough to spend time in a psychiatric hospital knows, you don’t have to be completely mad to be there. A lot of us...

18.01.2024 4

The Spectator

Ian Sansom

Books / Why are the Japanese so obsessed with the cute?

Joshua Paul Dale is a professor of American literature and culture at Chuo University in Tokyo and a pioneer in what is apparently a burgeoning...

04.01.2024 8

The Spectator

Ian Sansom

Books / What makes other people’s groceries so engrossing?

When you think of a collector you might imagine, say, Sir John Soane, Henry Wellcome, Charles Saatchi or Peggy Guggenheim, the fabulously wealthy,...

06.10.2023 4

The Spectator

Ian Sansom

Books / A 50-year obsession with the white stuff: Milk, by Peter Blegvad, reviewed

It’s been a while since I read a good cento, from the Latin and derived from the Greek, I need not remind Spectator readers, meaning...

27.09.2023 5

The Spectator

Ian Sansom

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