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Alexander Linklater
— 26th May 2010 — Issue 171 
Christopher Hitchens’s autobiography is at its best when it echoes his essays. Unfortunately, the rest of the time it’s largely pointless and self-indulgent
Subject: Books & literature, Intellectuals & ideasCulture in a time of crisis
Emma Crichton-Miller
and Alexander Linklater
— 28th April 2010 — Issue 170
They’re meant to be driving regeneration, but do “creative industries” actually exist?
Undue modesty
Alexander Linklater
— 24th February 2010 — Issue 168
We must not overhype brain science. But the real risk is that we underestimate it
Subject: Intellectuals & ideasA beautiful science
Those sceptical about psychiatry will find a poor champion in Richard Bentall. The most enthralling of the medical sciences deserves a better critic
Subject: Books & literature, People & populationsA model modern Boswell
A new biography of Alasdair Gray doesn’t answer the big questions. But it is canny and charming on the small ones
Subject: Books & literature, British politicsThe mind creates ghosts
Patrick McGrath’s new novel isn’t his best. But it’s another example of his extraordinary talent for dissecting our inner lives, and for blurring the fine line between sanity and sickness
Subject: Books & literature, Health, Short storiesOut of mind
Alexander Linklater
— 29th June 2008 — Issue 147
Those seeking to explain the actions of Josef Fritzl have resorted to stock ideas—that he is insane, evil or a product of his culture. Yet for all his depravity, he remains one of us
Subject: HealthThe Hitchens out-takes
Alexander Linklater
— 24th May 2008 — Issue 146
Christopher Hitchens on the sectarian left, his relationship with his brother, and more
Christopher Hitchens
From ‘68 agitator to staunch supporter of George W Bush’s Iraq war—what explains Hitchens’s political journey? I spent three days with him in Washington trying to find out
Bombast as art
In portraying Hitler as the product of a diabolical incest, Norman Mailer has taken fictional ambition to a remote peak of implausibility
Subject: Books & literature, Human rights, Short storiesAlexander Linklater
Alexander Linklater is Prospect's associate editor
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