Andrew O’Hagan
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Sep 21, 2026
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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge (opens the original)
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The notion that novelists don’t invent might be recent, yet George Eliot got tired of people pointing to the ‘original’ of Mr Casaubon, who was sometimes said to be Robert William Mackay, a rather pedantic associate of hers at the Westminster Review, or Dr Brabant, a pretentious family man of 62 who had wooed her decades earlier. Others said he was Mark Pattison, the rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, who was busy suffocating the young woman to whom he was married. The Pattisons corresponded wa
Andrew O’Hagan | Johnny Marr’s Guitars (opens the original)
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On a rainy night in October 1987 I went with a friend to see B.B. King at the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow and after the show we went round to his dressing room. He seemed to like talking to young people – we were 19; he was 62 – and he made a great performance of pointing to his guitar, ‘Lucille’, an adapted black Gibson ES-355 with an ivory fretboard, which stood by itself in a shower stall. As King told us how he’d rescued one of its predecessors from a burning dancehall, my mind was drifting
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