Andrew O’Hagan: ‘The Missing was always waiting to be a play’
Andrew O'Hagan was too haunted by his first book – an investigation of missing persons in the light of the West murders – to turn it into a play. He reveals why he changed his mindThere was a courtroom in Dursley, Gloucestershire, where they played...
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
Hailed as 'the greatest theatre producer who ever lived' and the champion of all things beautiful, Serge Diaghilev transformed not only ballet but all the arts in the 20th century. Andrew O'Hagan welcomes the V&A's lavish celebration of his legacy...
Andrew O’Hagan: ‘Blair is cursed with a strong sense of his own decency’
The novelist gives his verdict on Tony Blair's memoirThe Lord God so liked his little Tony that he placed him on Earth to show humanity how it should never trust a man who thinks his goodness is axiomatic. That's where the story begins and ends, but no...
Once upon a life: Andrew O’Hagan
In 1990 Andrew O'Hagan, aged 21, took a job at a charity for blind ex-servicemen. For many at St Dunstan's, the mud and blood of Ypres or the Somme were the last they had seen of life. Here, the novelist recalls how those old soldiers opened a new...
Andrew O’Hagan on fiction’s talking animals
From Achilles' horse to Lassie, animals provide moral authority and sympathy in fiction, often giving voice to the silenced and oppressed. Andrew O'Hagan, who has written a novel from the perspective of Marilyn Monroe's pet terrier, on what literature's eloquent creatures tell us about being human
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