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Welcome to the Jonathan Raban Fan Site, source of all things Raban from Books to Articles and other odds and ends. Know of anything interesting Raban wise on the web? well feel free to drop me an e-mail. info@jonathanraban.com
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| | Sarah And Her Tribe |
Jonathan Raban on the "Palin-shaped vacuum in the heart of the American electorate". Sarah and Her Tribe
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| The Golden Trumpet |
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Jonathan Raban takes a close look at Barack Obama's rejection of the political philosophical and legislative record of the previous administration.
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| All the Presidents' Literature |
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Jonathan Raban's latest article on the best presidential writers, and what Barack Obama's memoirs say about how he'll lead.
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| Raban on Vidal |
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In the grand sweep of Vidal's aquiline view, American history has been a succession of tragic follies, and his essays, in their still-uncollected totality, amount to a massive prose Dunciad of literary and political knaves, hacks, and blockheads. The Prodigious Pessimist
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| Raban on Election Night |
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grown men and women wept in gratitude
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| NYRB/Guardian America Election Event |
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This fall, The New York Review of Books and Guardian America will bring their writers and editors together to discuss the issues shaping the 2008 election campaign. October 30, 7:30 pm, Elliott Bay Book Company at Town Hall, Seattle, WA. Panelists: Martin Kettle, Thomas Powers, Jonathan Raban, and Michael Tomasky.
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| Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill |
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In the run up to the Vice-Presidential Debate, Jonathan Raban's latest article for the London Review of Books examines the Palin phenomenon "...told that she has 15 seconds in which to answer, Palin invariably beats the clock, and her concision and fluency more than compensate for her unrelenting triteness"
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| Just Two Clicks |
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Jonathan Raban's latest long essay is for the London Review of Books on Neil Entwistle, a seemingly ordinary 27-year-old englishman who shot dead his american wife, rachel and their baby daughter. Just Two Clicks
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| London Calling |
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Jonathan Raban revisits Soft City in his latest Financial Times essay 'My Own Private Metropolis' and writes a review, 'Crashing the Party', of 'The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British' by Sarah Lyall in the New York Review of Books.
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