BOOK REVIEWS

Books You’ll Never Read and Word Play

Books You’ll Never Read and Word Play

ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 13 THE GREATEST BOOKS YOU’LL NEVER READ (Cassell Illustrated £20) is a collection of literature’s lost and unfinished masterpieces.  This is a fascinating book an ...
Books on Orson Welles and John Osborne

Books on Orson Welles and John Osborne

Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 12 ORSON WELLES One Man Band by Simon Callow (Jonathan Cape £25). The third volume has a tremendous panache, matching Welles’s own bravura and extraordinary energ ...
Books about the world today and yesterday

Books about the world today and yesterday

ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 11 EVOLUTION THE WHOLE STORY (Thames & Hudson £19.95). “I would rather be an off-spring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth,” said one emin ...
Books on Plays, Playwrights  and Critics

Books on Plays, Playwrights  and Critics

ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 10 THE 101 GREATEST PLAYS by Michael Billington. (Guardian and Faber & Faber £18.99).  “Eyebrows will doubtless be raised about my final selection, the omissi ...