WikiLeaks: Strained relations, accusations – and crucial revelations
Extract from WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy reveals twists and turns in the fraught lead-up to the publication of US embassy cables• Buy WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy hereThree men were in the Belgian hotel courtyard... More...
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Monday, 31 January, 2011
Cairo book fair abandoned amid unrest
Biggest literary event in the Arab literary world pulled as Egypt convulsed by protestsLiterature has been caught up in the protests that have now entered their seventh day in Egypt. The annual Cairo book fair, due to have been held... More...
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Monday, 31 January, 2011
Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 due out in English in October
Hotly anticipated translation of Japanese sensation will be published in a single, 1,000-page volumeGreat news for Haruki Murakami fans: the long-awaited English translation of 1Q84, the writer's epic novel in three volumes that has proved a huge hit in his... More...
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Monday, 31 January, 2011
Journalism history chair for Conboy
I am delighted to see that Martin Conboy has been given a chair at Sheffield University in journalism history. As far as he and I are aware, there is no other professor of journalism history in Britain.Conboy certainly deserves the... More...
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Monday, 31 January, 2011
Payments by Borders Late Again
It was the second month in a row that Borders delayed payments to vendors as it struggled to restructure its debt.... More...
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Monday, 31 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Singing the Perfectionist-Folkie Blues
In “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World,” John Szwed, a biographer of Miles Davis and Sun Ra, covers the life of a tireless music folklorist and anthologist.... More...
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Sunday, 30 January, 2011
Eleanor Galenson, Expert on Children’s Sexual Identity, Dies at 94
Dr. Galenson and a colleague concluded that children make the discovery of genital difference between the ages of 15 to 19 months. Freud had postulated 4 to 5 years old.... More...
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Sunday, 30 January, 2011
JD Salinger a recluse? No, just your average Tim Henman fan
JD Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, liked bus tours and burgers, according to letters recently made publicWhat a disappointment. JD Salinger, far from being the demented/spooky hermit of legend, was actually a regular, fun-loving person. All those... More...
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Sunday, 30 January, 2011
Assange's collaborators get their knives out
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Sunday, 30 January, 2011
The Problem With Memoirs
Taking stock of four new memoirs — and of the motives for adding to an already crowded genre.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Paul Berman on Irving Kristol
Featuring Paul Berman on Irving Kristol, the "godfather of neoconservatism"; and Bruce Weber on a new book that debunks some persistent sports myths.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
A Lion in the Undergrowth
An exceptionally inventive neuroscientist sees the workings of the mind in evolutionary terms.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Book Review Podcast: Paul Berman on Irving Kristol
Featuring Paul Berman on Irving Kristol, the "godfather of neoconservatism"; and Bruce Weber on a new book that debunks some persistent sports myths.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Irving Kristol’s Brute Reason
These writings, nearly all previously uncollected, offer a faithful representation of Irving Kristol’s ideas and evolution.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Game Theory
A behavioral economist and a sportswriter take on some of the most cherished myths in sports.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: An Adaptation of Robert Jordan's 'New Spring'
The work of the fantasy novelist Robert Jordan gets a graphic novel adaptation in "New Spring," part of the author's "Wheel of Time" series.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Quai d'Orsay's comic-book hero tickles French fancy
Satirical graphic novel based on former PM Dominique de Villepin has become surprise French literary hitA silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
The Anchor
The CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien looks back on 22 years in TV news.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Up Front: Paul Berman
If there is one theme that runs through Paul Berman’s wide-ranging work, it is the impact of intellectuals on the world at large.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Essay: The Perils of Literary Profiling
We acquire the books on our shelves for all sorts of reasons, but try explaining that to a G-man.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
The War Presidents
A Yale law professor argues that under President Obama the current war on terror still betrays the principles of “just war” theory.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Olmert Memoir Cites Near Deal for Mideast Peace
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel says Mahmoud Abbas’s hesitation, his own legal troubles and the war in Gaza scotched a potential deal in late 2008.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Claire Dederer’s “Poser,” in its third week on the nonfiction list, has lots to say about yoga and modern parenting. Just don’t ask her to demonstrate Tiger Mother pose.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Nonfiction Chronicle
A family history by a ceramics artist; memoirs by a young Oxford graduate who became a military officer and from NPR’s Michele Norris; and an academic biography of the poet Andrew Marvell.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Crime: Court of Corruption
Mystery novels by C. J. Sansom, Richard A. Thompson, Michael Koryta and Erin Kelly.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Diminished Expectations
A study of the global economy marks the passing of the “Age of Optimism.”... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Thy Neighbor’s Wealth
“Anna Karenina,” Manchester United and Nero are all grist for this analysis of global inequality.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Walled City
This rich and lively novel’s hero is a chronicler of Moroccan lore.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Hot Off the Presses
Biographical sketches of early American counterfeiters and their colorful, roguish lives.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Boys to Men
Looking back at their teenage years, a novel’s narrators expose a town’s collective guilt.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
McCain Ex-Aide Suspected as Anonymous ‘O’ Author
The former aide, Mark Salter, has been named as the author by The New York Post, Mark Halperin of Time magazine and early readers of the novel, who say it bears some of his telltale marks.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
A Vanished World
H. G. Adler, a death-camp survivor who pioneered Holocaust studies, wrote the first draft of this thinly disguised bildungsroman in 1948.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Topological Fiction
These clever and oblique short stories, written over three decades, highlight the breadth and diversity of Joseph McElroy’s vision.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Ebook revolution accelerates in sales and status
Amazon is reporting Kindle edition sales outstripping paperbacks in the US, and the Booker prize jury is now reading on ebooksThe ebook revolution has swept past two more milestones in its ferocious advance upon the bastions of literary culture. As... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Obama novel O's anonymous author named
US press pins authorship on John McCain aide Mark SalterIt was only published this week, but already the mystery may be over. The author of the anonymously-written novel O, billed as offering the inside story of the current US president,... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Biased Referees and Biased Authors
In their book "Scorecasting," Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim show that referees are often guilty of so-called omission bias.... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt
Gulliver's Travels author and satirist used baby talk for coded intimacy in journal of lettersThe line "tis still terribly cold - I wish my cold hand was in the warmest place about you, young women" would have had the satirist... More...
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Swift's flirtatious game of self-censorship
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Friday, 28 January, 2011
Best Translated Book awards longlist revealed
Twenty-five books in contention, but none from publisher that protested over Amazon.com's sponsorshipDavid Grossman, Per Petterson and Amelie Nothomb are the major names leading the fiction longlist for this year's Best Translated Book awards, run from the University of Rochester... More...
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Ronald Reagan as Dad, a Sunny Stranger
“My Father at 100,” a deeply felt memoir by Ron Reagan, underscores the bafflement Ronald Reagan’s own children often felt about their father.... More...
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: J. D. Salinger’s Favorite Hamburger
The author's fondness for Burger King, Tim Henman and the Three Tenors are among the personal details revealed in letters recently made public by the University of East Anglia.... More...
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
Philip Pullman's call to defend libraries resounds around web
Impassioned polemic against closures picked up by thousands of readersA passionate speech delivered by author Philip Pullman to two or three hundred people at an Oxfordshire library campaigners' meeting earlier this month has become a viral sensation through the influence... More...
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
Patti Smith writing detective novel
Singer to follow award-winning memoir with mystery story set in London and inspired by Sherlock HolmesPatti Smith may soon follow in the footsteps of Agatha Christie, Ian Rankin and Stieg Larsson. This week, the singer revealed she has completed "68%"... More...
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
JD Salinger's letters reveal admiration for Tim Henman
Catcher in the Rye author was fan of tennis, tenors and Burger KingJD Salinger was regarded as a recluse for much of the last 50 years of his life but previously unseen letters written by the author to a friend... More...
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
Toibin gets Amis's job – but not his £3,000 an hour salary
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
JD Salinger: My love for Tim Henman (and other stories)
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Thursday, 27 January, 2011
After 60 Years, a Promise Kept to Sinclair Lewis
Barnaby Conrad has written a novel about John Wilkes Booth 60 years after promising Sinclair Lewis he would do so.... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Multiple-Universe Theory Made, Well, Easier
Brian Greene, the author of “The Elegant Universe,” explains another frontier in physics.... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution Is Vindicated
Vladimir Nabokov studied butterflies, and he came up with a sweeping hypothesis that, 65 years later, DNA analysis has proven correct.... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Writer-for-Hire Gets a Book Deal to Write About Helping Students Cheat
This time he's hired by a publisher.... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: ‘Tiger Mother’ in Stephen Colbert’s Den
In a comic interview on "The Colbert Report," Amy Chua tried to argue that her book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" was a memoir, not a how-to guide on parenting.... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Orhan Pamuk attacks 'marginalisation' of non-English writers
Writer laments near-invisibility of writers in languages other than English, and persistent shortage of translationsThe Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has complained that the majority of human experience is being ignored because the literature that describes it is not... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Poet and diarist RF Langley dies
Only beginning to publish in his 60s, Langley's work was much admired for its experimental spiritThe poet and diarist RF Langley, whose meditative work was deeply influenced by the natural world and by the landscapes of Suffolk in particular, has... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Japanese woman is bestselling poet – aged 99
Toyo Shibata's self-published anthology, Don't Lose Heart, sells 1.5m copies in a market where 10,000 is seen as a success... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Bloc Party's Kele Okereke writing a book
Singer moving to New York to complete first book, thought to be a collection of erotic short storiesKele Okereke is writing a book. The Bloc Party frontman has revealed he is moving to America to finish his first tome, possibly... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Colm Tóibín takes over teaching job from Martin Amis
As Amis leaves for New York, Tóibín installed as professor of creative writing at the University of ManchesterNovelist Colm Tóibín is set to take over from Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. But Tóibín,... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91
Mr. Bell was a writer, editor, sociologist and teacher who over seven decades came to epitomize the engaged intellectual.... More...
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Shapcott's Costa prize is a surprise victory for poetry
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Poet wins Book of Year with meditation on cancer
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Wednesday, 26 January, 2011
Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability
Bookies' favourite Edmund de Waal misses out as judges praise Shapcott's 'very special and unusual and uplifting' collectionIn a surprise result for the Costa book of the year award, poet Jo Shapcott has taken the £35,000 award for her book... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: The Life, Death and Life of Superheroes
Comic book stories, like soap operas, are a never-ending series of twists and turns. And fans of super-heroes have learned that seemingly no death is permanent.... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
Books: A Pound of Prevention Is Worth a Closer Look
Wild enthusiasm in seeking and treating tiny abnormalities.... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Young Writer Searches for Harlem
A young black writer seeks to reconcile Harlem past and present.... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Arts & Letters Daily Names New Editor
Evan R. Goldstein, an editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education, was officially appointed editor of the intellectual and literary Web site Arts & Letters Daily.... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
Ian McEwan defends decision to accept Jerusalem prize
Pro-Palestinian writers had called on novelist to boycott Israeli awardIan McEwan has replied to pro-Palestinian writers who have accused him of accepting the "corrupt and cynical" Jerusalem prize for literature by insisting on his right to engage in dialogue with... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne set for auction
Letter written to neighbour Fanny Brawne as John Keats lay dying of tuberculosis could fetch up to £120,000A poignant letter in which the poet John Keats, already mortally ill, vowed to kiss Fanny Brawne's signature – since he could not... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
BBC to provide answer to Charles Dickens' final mystery
Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to be given latest plot twist in new BBC adaptationWhodunnit? Was it the fog, the opium, the quicklime, the Ceylonese twin or his villainous uncle Jasper that did for Edwin Drood?... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Fantastic Four No More
The Fantastic Four will lose one of its team members to the Grim Reaper in an issue that is to be released Tuesday.... More...
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
Walcott's meditation on dying wins poetry prize
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Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work
Success for Nobel laureate after withdrawing from Oxford professor election following sex harassment claims in 2009In a "bumper year" for English-language poetry, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, who was embroiled in scandal two years ago, was tonight named winner of the... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Books of The Times: What Africa Brought to the Table
Jessica B. Harris writes about “the Africanizing of the Southern palate,” and ultimately of the American one.... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Building Bridges Between French and American Artists and Scholars
New initiative brings together French and American scholars, artists, writers.... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Urinating on Jorge Luis Borges's grave was an artistic act, says Chilean writer
Book cover depicting Eduardo Labarca apparently urinating on author's grave provokes outrage in ArgentinaJorge Luis Borges was possibly the greatest Spanish-language writer of the 20th century, but the Chilean author Eduardo Labarca felt the best tribute a fellow writer could... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Library protestors declare day of action
A 'carnival of resistance' to threatened closures planned at more than 40 libraries on 5 February 2011A "carnival of resistance" to library closures will take place on 5 February 2011, with over forty library "read-ins" scheduled in a coordinated protest... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Anthony Hopkins in talks to play Alfred Hitchcock
Actor reportedly in negotiations to portray legendary director in big screen account of the making of PsychoAnthony Hopkins is in talks to play Alfred Hitchcock in a big screen account of the making of Psycho, according to the Hollywood Reporter.... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Robert Burns letter discovered in castle
Scottish poet's 1789 letter to head of Edinburgh medical school contains early version of On Seeing a Wounded HareAn unpublished letter by the Scottish poet Robert Burns to a professor of medicine at Edinburgh University has been found at a... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Small Bookstores Struggle for Niche in Shifting Times
Take to the Internet? Sell coffee and muffins? Independent bookstores are looking for the right balance as even a giant like Borders finds it difficult.... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right
Ex-laureate Andrew Motion joins exploration of Englishness in works that redefine patron saint in 'agnostic liturgy'Andrew Motion is among a leading group of poets who have written a new liturgy exploring "Englishness" in a much-changed England, and are attempting to... More...
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Armitage: 'Creative writing is not a frivolous endeavour'
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Monday, 24 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Odd, Odd Case of Bobby Fischer
In “Endgame,” a longtime associate of Bobby Fischer recounts the chess superstar’s rise and fall from grace.... More...
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Sunday, 23 January, 2011
Mark Twain, Now a Career for the Mustachioed
Mark Twain impersonators are doing very well, thanks to “The Autobiography of Mark Twain,” published in 2010.... More...
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Sunday, 23 January, 2011
Anne Robinson softens style for BBC2's My Life in Books
Fearsome Weakest Link presenter to front literary version of Desert Island Discs as part of a year-long focus on writingAnne Robinson, the dark lady of teatime television and mistress of the pointed putdown, is to be re-styled this spring as... More...
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Sunday, 23 January, 2011
Here's something novel – backing for first-time writers
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Sunday, 23 January, 2011
Race is on to cash in on WikiLeaks
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Sunday, 23 January, 2011
Libraries: 'Hands off our doors to learning'
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Sunday, 23 January, 2011
Late Style
Nicholas Delbanco asks why some artists mature early and run out of steam, while others gain momentum in old age.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Reckless Abandon
The women in Joyce Carol Oates’s latest collection display a powerful and self-destructive need for love.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Mad Women
The social historian Stephanie Coontz re-evaluates “The Feminine Mystique” and its author, Betty Friedan.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
By the Banks of the Tigris
Ahmad Chalabi’s daughter offers an absorbing social history of Iraq through her family story.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Nonfiction Chronicle
Books by Roland Barthes, Mahmoud Darwish, Xiaoda Xiao and Mark Slouka.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
The Orientalists
A novel recreates Lucie Duff Gordon’s escape to Egypt and how her Englishness slowly melted away.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Only Bitterness Remains
In David Vann’s first novel, isolation and an Alaskan winter take their toll on a marriage.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Guilty Hearts
A story collection inspired by true stories of German jurisprudence.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Lives of the Philosophers, Warts and All
James Miller argues that philosophers’ willingness to reflect on their own petty failings makes their lives more, not less, worth studying.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Lost Boy
This memoir recalls the heady, scary times of an 11-year-old Cuban’s introduction to America in the early 1960s.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Up Front: Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell heartily endorses the notion that philosophy is poorer when it loses sight of the messy lives of those who do the philosophizing.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Essay: The Philosophical Novel
Can fiction be philosophical? Even novelists trained in philosophy have sometimes insisted no.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
What It All Means
Two eminent philosophy professors take aim at contemporary nihilism in this idiosyncratic tour of the classics.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
We, Robots
Sherry Turkle once saw technology as a tool for playing with identity. Now she fears it is replacing identity.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Is Pink Necessary?
A tour of the hyper-feminine, commercialized world of young girls.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Believing in Peace, Even After the Unthinkable
A Palestinian doctor, three of his children killed in a bombing, forswears hatred and sees history as an enemy of the future.... More...
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Mann book to tell story of failed African coup
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
Amis writes off star lecturer job
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Saturday, 22 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Philosophy Edition
Featuring the philosopher Sean Dorrance Kelly on the classics of Western literature; and James Ryerson on novelists who are trained philosophers.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Book Review Podcast: Philosophy Edition
Featuring the philosopher Sean Dorrance Kelly on the classics of Western literature; and James Ryerson on novelists who are trained philosophers.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
Overnighter: Norwich, England — a Getaway for Book Lovers
Two hours from London, medieval Norwich is a reader’s town, with a university that hosts literary festivals and plentiful bookstores and cafes whose author readings draw crowds.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Manga Romance and Honors from GLAAD
The fourth volume of "Stepping on Roses," published by VIZ Media, enters our manga list at No. 8 this week.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Amy Chua’s paean to take-no-prisoners hyperparenting roars onto the hardcover nonfiction list this week.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Reviewer Spotlight: Rebecca Traister
This weekend, Rebecca Traister reviews Stephanie Coontz’s latest book, “A Strange Stirring: ‘The Feminine Mystique’ and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.” In a recent interview, Traister gave us her take on “The Feminine Mystique” and the state... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
Gordon Murray, Retired Wall St. Executive, Dies at 60; Wrote Investment Guide
A cancer patient, Mr. Murray said writing “The Investment Answer,” a guide for laymen, probably added days to his life.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77
Mr. Price, the novelist, poet and memoirist, found all the material he needed in the North Carolina he knew so well.... More...
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Friday, 21 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: McEwan Wins Jerusalem Prize
The prize is Israel's highest literary award for foreigners.... More...
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Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Collected John Lennon letters to be published
Yoko Ono sells publishing rights to collection of letters giving unrivalled insight into Lennon's characterJohn Lennon was a man of many words – verbose in interviews, prolific in prose and a dedicated letter-writer. Now, for the first time, fans will... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel
Borat and Brüno star takes on film of Zabibah and the King, a romantic novel reputedly written by Iraqi dictatorSacha Baron Cohen's on-screen antics have paired him with everyone from Pamela Anderson to Janet Jackson to US presidential candidate Ron... More...
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Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Books of The Times: A Dishy Take on the 2012 Race, by ... Somebody
“O: A Presidential Novel” by Anonymous is speculative fiction about the 2012 campaign that is trite, implausible and decidedly unfunny.... More...
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Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Jamie Oliver cooks up record sales for Pearson
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Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Ancient Koran comes into the modern age
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Thursday, 20 January, 2011
O, A Presidential Novel sparks search for anonymous author
Speculation rife that mystery writer behind fictional book depicting Barack Obama may be a political insiderThe language is not the sort we are used to hearing from Barack Obama. "Jesus Christ, do they expect you to be castrated by this... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Newly Released Books
New novels by Alice Hofmann, Bradford Morrow, Thelma Adams, Howard Gordon, Suzanne Corso and Adam Schwartz.... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Books of The Times: But Will It All Make ‘Tiger Mom’ Happy?
In “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua offers a highly readable screed on the art of obsessive parenting.... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Wilfrid Sheed, Writer of Gentle Wit, Dies at 80
Mr. Sheed drew upon his Anglo-American background to write bittersweet essays, criticism, memoirs and fiction about cultural life on both sides of the Atlantic.... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Ian McEwan says he will accept Jerusalem prize
Author – who will travel to city book fair to pick up award – accused of giving support to Israeli leadersIn a long literary career the novelist Ian McEwan has won prizes from many parts of the western world, but... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Liz Lochhead appointed as makar, Scotland's national poet
'Inspirational presence in British poetry' is successor to Edwin MorganThe award-winning poet and playwright Liz Lochhead has been announced as Scotland's new makar, the national poet. She will begin work without delay, when she the opens the new Robert Burns... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Bob Dylan signs six-book deal
Agreement with publisher Simon & Schuster promises two further volumes of autobiography to follow 2004's ChroniclesBob Dylan has signed a deal to write six more books for his publisher Simon & Schuster, including two works of autobiography to follow Chronicles:... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez Plan a Memoir
The father and son will work together a book called "Along the Way," about a journey along an ancient pilgrimage path in Spain.... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
Ian McEwan wins Jerusalem prize
Novelist acclaimed by jury as 'one of the most important writers of our time'Ian McEwan is to be given Israel's prestigious literary award, the Jerusalem prize, with the jury hailing him as "one of the most important writers of our... More...
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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
HMV distributors denied credit insurance
New blow to HMV after fears over loan covenant and grim Christmas tradingKey suppliers to struggling high street chain HMV have been denied credit insurance in a further sign that music, movies and books retailer – which also owns Waterstone's... More...
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
Waterloo underpass poem to be restored
Eurydice by Sue Hubbard, which was painted over by Network Rail contractors, is being replaced after Facebook campaignA mural poem composed to comfort travellers descending into one of Britain's most dismal underworlds is being recreated after more than 1,000 people... More...
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Sherlock Holmes to Resume Winding His Way Down Baker Street
Anthony Horowitz, the author of the Alex Rider series, will write a new Sherlock Holmes novel authorized by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.... More...
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
Books of The Times: A Touchstone of Detroit Is Dismantled
An account of what happens to a massive Detroit auto plant the year after it shuts down.... More...
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
Plan to bridge separation of service families with joint reading scheme
Reading Force encourages military personnel to share reading experience with families at homeA new scheme, designed to bridge the divide separating military personnel serving overseas from their families at home by encouraging them all to read the same books, is... More...
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
Simon Cowell subject of satirical 'Sex Factor' novel
X-Factor mastermind sent on search for meaning in 'spovel' by author Bill ColesHe's a multi-millionaire music producer, and the most famous judge on TV talent show hits The X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent, famed for his withering put-downs to talentless... More...
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
To Dubai with love: Author reveals details of new Bond novel
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Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Al Qaeda And the U.S., Still Battling
In “The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda,” Peter L. Bergen draws on the work of others, his own analysis and a broad range of interviews.... More...
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Monday, 17 January, 2011
Sherlock Holmes returns in official sequel by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider author on the case, at request of Conan Doyle estateMaster detective Sherlock Holmes is to follow in the suave footsteps of spy James Bond, gaining a new lease of life in the hands of a high-profile modern novelist.... More...
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Monday, 17 January, 2011
Michael Eavis speaks out for library campaign
Glastonbury festival founder among celebrities lining up for activist filmGlastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis is set to star in a Save Our Libraries campaign film, shot by the ever-active library supporters of Somerset.... More...
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Monday, 17 January, 2011
Twitter support for libraries snowballs worldwide
Savelibraries hashtag picks up support from thousands around the worldA simple tweet from a Shropshire ICT lecturer musing on libraries while doing her laundry of a Sunday morning resulted in the hashtag #savelibraries trending worldwide yesterday.... More...
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Monday, 17 January, 2011
Dalrymple caught up in spat over 'Raj' and 'racism'
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Monday, 17 January, 2011
Books of The Times: A Family Speaks in Someone Else’s Words, but at Least It Chooses the Best
An academic family in Eleanor Brown’s “Weird Sisters” communicates through Shakespearean quotations.... More...
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
Off the Shelf: The Spirit of the Mensch
“Practical Wisdom,” a new book by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe, offers ways to enact wise decisions for the greater good.... More...
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
Flo Gibson, Grande Dame of Audiobooks, Dies at 86
Mrs. Gibson narrated more than 1,100 books, including “Middlemarch” (31 hours, 7 minutes) and “Anna Karenina” (36 hours, 7 minutes).... More...
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
Bookshelf: Putting a Stamp on New York’s Architecture
“Triumvirate,” by Mosette Broderick, is a star-studded social and architectural narrative of America’s Gilded Age.... More...
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
A hugger or a tiger mother: battle of the baby-rearing strategies
A series of new books is likely to open up fresh controversy about the way we bring up our children; some demanding strict, regimented parenting, others a more laid-back approachThe hapless mother who innocently mashed up some sweet potato last... More...
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
Library closures: Labour's fury as users are labelled white and middle class
The shadow media and culture minister insists that libraries provide a 'crucial service' for everyoneLabour politicians and campaigners have condemned the head of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council for suggesting that public libraries are primarily used by the white... More...
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
Overdue! The fight to save our libraries begins
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Sunday, 16 January, 2011
Library emptied in bid to fight closure
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Saturday, 15 January, 2011
The Family History Is Grim, but He’s Plotted a New Course
The Alaskan novelist David Vann, whose “Legend of a Suicide” was a surprise best seller in Europe, takes a new approach to a family tragedy in his latest book, “Caribou Island.”... More...
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Saturday, 15 January, 2011
Millionth book added to Bodleian annexe
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Saturday, 15 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: The Revamped O.E.D. Online
Language lovers might want to check out this week's Bits: Tech Talk podcast, which features a conversation with John Simpson, the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Charles Baxter’s Midwest
Starkness and human isolation lurk beneath the Norman Rockwell contours of Charles Baxter’s Midwest stories.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Jennifer Egan and Siddhartha Mukherjee
This week: Featuring an extended conversation with the authors Jennifer Egan and Siddhartha Mukherjee.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Scottish artists offered funds to get away from it all in Highland retreats
• Residential plan hopes to uncover future talent• £1m initiative contrasts with big cuts in EnglandUp to 1,000 artists, musicians and writers are to be offered government-funded residencies on remote Scottish islands, at art centres and Highland retreats in a... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
The Medium: Watch Me, Read Me
The Vook is to video reading what the Kindle is to reading reading.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Partner of Stieg Larsson Wants to Complete Fourth 'Millennium' Novel
Eva Gabrielsson talks about the book in a new memoir.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Book Review Podcast: Jennifer Egan and Siddhartha Mukherjee
This week: Featuring an extended conversation with the authors Jennifer Egan and Siddhartha Mukherjee.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Two Guys From Paris
A pair of French writers debate the universe and their places in it.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Rhythms of a New Land
This book introduces Martha Graham to children with reverence and finesse, recounting how she created the modern-dance classic “Appalachian Spring.”... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Library clears its shelves in protest at closure threat
Users urged to take out full allowance of library books in campaign to keep Stony Stratford branch openThe library at Stony Stratford, a town on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, the shell-shocked staff... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: 'Appalachian Spring': From Page to Screen
In the Book Review this weekend we review "Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring," a picture book about one of Martha Graham's most famous dances. On YouTube, there's a beautifully filmed version.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly’s “All Things Shining” lands on the nonfiction list — not bad for two philosophy professors.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Essay: The Deadliest Book Review
One hundred years ago, a libel accusation leveled at a famous novelist ended in the most spectacular crime in American literary history.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Children’s Books: Curses in the Air
This historical fantasy for teenagers follows the adventures of an orphaned girl in a world modeled on 16th-century Poland and Lithuania.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Children’s Books: Pig With Passport
Ian Falconer’s rambunctious piglet heroine is back, leading her family on a spree through the City of Bridges.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Delicate Planet
From his cottage near Montauk Point, a naturalist explains Earth’s perilous times and delivers an ambitious meditation on nature’s connectedness.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
An Addict in the Family
A New York Times culture reporter attempts to understand his father’s addiction.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Determined to Strike
Peter L. Bergen examines Al Qaeda’s history and motives and America’s ineffective response.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Following the Scent
The life of Coco Chanel as seen through her famous perfume.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Woman’s Work
Robb Forman Dew’s novel, set mostly in the 1950s, continues the story of her character Agnes Scofield, a widowed schoolteacher, and her circle.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Stories of Dislocation and Relocation
Edith Pearlman’s view of the world is large and compassionate, delivered in these stories through small, beautifully precise moments.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Up Front: Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson has written three story collections, to go along with four novels and a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Stories From an Irish Master
Like Joyce’s Dubliners, many of the characters in these stories can’t escape their homeland.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Stieg Larsson's partner plans to complete final Millennium novel
Eva Gabrielsson, late author's partner, says the pair 'often wrote together' and she will finish the hugely successful crime seriesStieg Larsson's partner Eva Gabrielsson plans to finish the fourth novel he left uncompleted on his death. According to early details... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 14 January, 2011
Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man revealed in first shot from new film
British actor appears as brooding figure in photographic peek at prequel that deals with Spider-Man Peter Parker's teenage yearsIt is said to be a "gritty, contemporary reboot" of the Spider-Man series in the vein of Christopher Nolan's 2005 reimagining of... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Neil Gaiman to appear on The Simpsons
The prizewinning science fiction and fantasy author Neil Gaiman is awarded another prestigious literary accolade: an appearance on The SimpsonsScience fiction and fantasy author Neil Gaiman is joining an elite group of writers including John Updike and Thomas Pynchon by... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Administration sparks book chain job fears
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Ruth Cavin, Editor Known to Cultivate Promising Writers, Dies at 92
Ms. Cavin, who at 60 began a second career in publishing, was respected for her hands-on editing of promising mystery-novel manuscripts.... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Joe Gores, Crime Writer in Dashiell Hammett Mode, Dies at 79
Mr. Gores’s spare, chiseled sentences and deadpan dialogue persuaded Hammett’s daughter to let him write a follow-up to “The Maltese Falcon.”... More...
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Friday, 14 January, 2011
Budget book chain in administration
• BBS becomes first retail casualty of 2011• Business will trade while buyer is sought• Source says Christmas trading was 'horrific'Budget bookseller British Bookshops & Stationers, which employs about 300 people in the south of England, has become the first... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Done With Drugs, But the Legacy Is Unfinished
A Times culture reporter’s memoir of his father’s drug addiction and its effects on his own life.... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
Currents | Books: ‘The Vegetable Garden’ From Taschen
All 46 historic plates in “The Vegetable Garden” have been reproduced, bringing 19th-century garden vegetables to the modern kitchen.... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Tyler Perry's Awards Extravaganza: Nominations Galore From N.A.A.C.P.
His movie and TV projects dominante the nominations.... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
Pete Postlethwaite autobiography due this summer
Memoir entitled A Spectacle of Dust submitted before the actor's death earlier this monthActor Pete Postlethwaite, whose death earlier this month was greeted with a nationwide expression of sadness and affection, has told his own story in a memoir due... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
Library campaigners demand public inquiry into closures
If the government does not call one, protesters say they are ready to set up their ownSomerset library campaigners are leading a call for a national public inquiry into the threatened closures of hundreds of libraries across the country. And,... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Mailbag: Readers on Criticism
Our Jan. 2 issue on "Why Criticism Matters" drew a large number of letters from readers. Here we share more than the few we were able to publish in print.... More...
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Thursday, 13 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Sad and True Love Story, Worthy of Its Soundtrack
The singer Rodney Crowell provides an account of his parents’ tumultuous relationship that is reminiscent of one of his country songs.... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
The Catcher in the Rye 'sequel' to be published
Follow-up to JD Salinger's novel of teenage angst, written by a Swedish author, to be issued in a number of countriesIf you really want to hear about it … the chances are you will soon be able to, unless you... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Archie to Go Digital
Beginning in April, digital versions of comics will be offered on the same day print editions arrive on newsstands.... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
Report warns of 'digital Dark Age' if digitisation is left to private sector
Research commissioned by EU urges member states to take greater responsibilityThe European Union and its member states must take more responsibility for the digitisation of Europe's cultural heritage if it is to avoid a "digital Dark Age," according to a... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
Tiger Mother's book makes case for ultra-strict Chinese parenting
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua set to stir controversy with critique of liberal western childrearingLess than a fortnight into the new year and already one of the most controversial books of 2011 has emerged. Battle Hymn... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
Bond 23 confirmed: Daniel Craig back as 007 in new film
James Bond returns to mark 50th anniversary of Dr No after surviving his toughest test ever: the bankruptcy of MGM StudiosThe financial problems that threatened to ensnare James Bond have been thwarted, allowing the Ian Fleming hero to return to... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
John Gross Dies at 75; Critic, Essayist and Editor
Mr. Gross, known for his fluid style and easy erudition, was the editor of The Times Literary Supplement in London and a book critic for The New York Times.... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful
The French writers Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy provoke each other in letters, then feign shock.... More...
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Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Live and in Print: Lapham's Celebrities
A gathering is scheduled for Joe's Pub on Jan. 20.... More...
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Tuesday, 11 January, 2011
'Extraordinary' Lorca manuscript discovered
Draft of 'Office and Denunciation' revealing previously unknown lines found in Library of Congress's music division"I offer myself to be devoured by Spanish peasants," writes the poet Federico García Lorca in a newly-discovered manuscript of a poem from his portrait... More...
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Tuesday, 11 January, 2011
Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis sign up for The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings stars to return as Gandalf and Gollum in Peter Jackson's two-part Tolkien prequel, The HobbitFrom the raucous taverns of the Shire to the dreaming spires of Gondor, there will be palpable relief today. Sir Ian McKellen... More...
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Tuesday, 11 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'East of Eden'
A. O. Scott looks back at Elia Kazan's 1955 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel.... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Newbery Awarded to Debut Author
A first-time author receives the prestigious Newbery Medal for her novel, “Moon Over Manifest.” Other children’s book awards were also announced.... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Of Home Fires Burning, or Burning Up Homes
Siobhan Fallon’s short stories delve into the lives of women left behind at Fort Hood when their husbands go off to (or return from) war.... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Paulo Coelho says Iran bans his books
The Alchemist author, whose sales top 300m in 150 countries, urges Brazilian government to interveneBrazilian author Paulo Coelho has said his books have been banned in Iran and has appealed to Brazil to intervene.... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Donald Rumsfeld's memoir up against satirical unknowns
On the same day as the former US defence secretary releases his memoir, a satirical novel, Donald, will also be publishedWhen it comes to telling the story of Donald Rumsfeld's life, facts have often seemed stranger than fiction. And now... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Great Gatsby's '3D makeover' angers fans
News of Baz Luhrmann's mooted 3D remake of F Scott Fitzgerald novel meets with disapprovalGive or take the odd wild party, car crash and shooting, a 3D adaptation of The Great Gatsby would not appear to promise quite the same... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Ladybird launches ebook app for babies
Baby Touch series has been adapted for the iPhone and iPod, aimed at children as young as six monthsAs of today, it won't be just the parents of toddlers who have to wrestle with their children for their iPhone. Babies... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Trent Reznor to score The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Nine Inch Nails frontman to showcase 'limited skills at stringed instruments' for David Fincher's film of Stieg Larsson novelTrent Reznor will once again work with Social Network director David Fincher, composing the score to the forthcoming Hollywood version of The... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
B. H. Friedman, a Novelist, Art Critic and Pollock Biographer, Is Dead at 84
Mr. Friedman gave up a life in the real-estate world to become a full-time author, writing novels as well as art biographies.... More...
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Monday, 10 January, 2011
Dark Tales Illuminate Haiti, Before and After Quake
Akashic Books is publishing a new anthology on the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti as part of its “Noir” series focused on specific locales.... More...
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Sunday, 9 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Twin Alone, Disconnected but Not Lost
“Twin,” a memoir by Allen Shawn, describes his life and his fears after his twin sister was placed, at age 8, in an institution for the mentally disabled.... More...
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Sunday, 9 January, 2011
A Wizard Rivals Mickey
A Harry Potter park has given new bounce to J. K. Rowling’s literary creation and ignited a rivalry between Universal and Walt Disney World.... More...
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Sunday, 9 January, 2011
Amis says au revoir to all that
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Sunday, 9 January, 2011
Off the Shelf: Sensible Spending, No Matter Your Age
New books offer personal-finance advice to two very different groups of readers.... More...
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Saturday, 8 January, 2011
Arts | Westchester: Writers Create a Haven Away From Home
The Marmaduke Writing Factory, organized in 2010, is writers’ group, part reading series, part literary network, and part local outreach.... More...
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Saturday, 8 January, 2011
No Potter plagiarism
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Saturday, 8 January, 2011
Soul Cuisine
How Africa put its stamp on America’s food traditions.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Blackboard | Readings: ‘War and Peace’ in 24 Hours
Students read the classics aloud. Think of it as an antidote to the electronic era.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Marilyn’s Manhattan, Both Public and Private
One of the 20th century’s biggest stars shot some famous scenes in Manhattan, but she also lived periodically in the city.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: David Carr on Marshall McLuhan
Featuring David Carr on the media prophet Marshall McLuhan; and Anand Giridharadas on his book, "India Calling."... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Federal Judge Makes 'Harry Potter' Plagiarism Suit Disappear
J.K. Rowling had been accused of copying from a book called "The Adventures of Willy the Wizard."... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: Book Review Podcast
Featuring David Carr on the media prophet Marshall McLuhan; and Anand Giridharadas on his book, "India Calling."... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
River of Consciousness
In this French novel of essentially one endless sentence, a secret agent exposes his guilt, and that of the West.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Dueling Rumsfelds: Novel to Appear on Same Day as Memoir
McSweeney's is providing an alternate version of the Rumsfeld story.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Marshall McLuhan: Media Savant
Douglas Coupland takes a pop-culture approach in this short biography of the media savant.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Announcing Her Existence
This first novel explores the emotional turmoil within the family of an intersex child.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Essay: The Case of the First Mystery Novelist
The true identity of the first mystery novelist has eluded literary detectives for 150 years. But reader, I know whodunit.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Crime: The Buried Past
Mystery novels by Charles Todd, Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom, T. Jefferson Parker and R. Scott Bakker.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Charles Portis’s “True Grit” is back on the best-seller list, thanks to the Coen brothers’ film adaptation.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Between Pain and Peace
A luminous tale of passion and betrayal, set amid unrest and violence in Sierra Leone.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Homeland Revisited
An exploration of fundamental changes in family and class relationships, and in the very idea of what it is to be Indian.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Beyond the Edge of the World
In this first novel, a woman reimagines the life and times of her polar-exploring ancestor and his faithful wife.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
In Suicide’s Shadow
The daughter of the poet Anne Sexton describes her own harrowing struggle with mental illness.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Power of Recall
A writer recollects her schizophrenic mother, to whom she remains emotionally captive.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Up Front: Melanie Thernstrom
Melanie Thernstrom, known for her journalism based on her own life, says she always asks permission before writing about someone she’s close to.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
The Formalist
At 89, Richard Wilbur still cuts a straight path through the shifting landscape of American poetry.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Shelter Beneath an Open Sky
In her first work of nonfiction in more than 20 years, Annie Proulx chronicles her efforts to build a house on a 640 acre preserve in Wyoming.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: A Different, Happy Ending for Diana? Monica Ali Novel Imagines a Future
The author of "Brick Lane" ponders what might have been.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
US judge dismisses JK Rowling plagiarism claim
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
Ricky Gervais to voice Mole in The Wind in the Willows adaptation
'I had Ricky in mind for this role from the inception of the project,' says director behind new take on Kenneth Grahame's classicRicky Gervais is to voice the character of Mole in a new live-action/animatronic version of The Wind in... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 7 January, 2011
Harry Potter plagiarism case thrown out of US court
Judge rules claims that JK Rowling borrowed from The Adventures of Willy the Wizard 'strain credulity'A plagiarism case brought against author JK Rowling has been dismissed in the US, after a judge ruled that comparing the two books involved "strains... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 7 January, 2011
Critic’s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You
A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that replaces the word “nigger” with “slave” does the original Twain novel a disservice.... More...
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Friday, 7 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: First Details of New Irish Arts Festival in U.S. Are Unveiled
The full program, called Imagine Ireland, will feature some 400 events in 40 states and will be supported by a $5.3 million investment from the Irish government.... More...
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
Books of The Times: New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!
Timothy Ferriss’s crazy, breathless self-help book has advice on weight loss, sexual bliss, enhanced fitness and life extension.... More...
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Colbert Sells Revised 'Huck Finn' Down the River
While others debate the merits of changing Mark Twain's novel, the contrarian comedian argues that the alterations do not go far enough.... More...
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
Robert Pattinson to star in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis
RPattz meets the Baron of Blood as teen idol and horror supremo collaborate on adaptation of Don DeLillo novelOne is every teenage girl's dream lover, the other a horror icon nicknamed the Baron of Blood. At first glance they would... More...
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
Design Notebook: Selling a Book by Its Cover
In the digital age, the printed book has received a stay of execution from an unlikely source: designers.... More...
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
Roddick rubs shoulders with Manning in latest UK biography dictionary
Sixty volume Dictionary of National Biography adds 216 Britons who departed in 2007, including Deedes, Coren, Sherrin and MellyTo the waiting room of history that is the Dictionary of National Biography, 216 people who died in 2007 are being added... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 6 January, 2011
Twain's classic loses the N-word for modern age
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
Author who created Babe the sheep-pig dies
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Thursday, 6 January, 2011
UK Kids' Author Whose Book Inspired 'Babe' Dies
British children's author Dick King-Smith, whose novel "The Sheep-Pig" inspired the hit movie "Babe," has died at the age of 88.... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Stoking the Fire Larsson Ignited
In this mystery, the writing team of Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom explore Polish gangsters’ plan to expand their drug trade into Sweden.... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Diana, Princess of Wales inspires Monica Ali's latest novel
Untold Stories depicts a fictional princess whose life trajectory bears more than a passing resemblance to that of DianaA lot has happened since Diana was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997. The twin towers fell, the euro was... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Unique book showcases the tools that built the west
Remarkable collection of nearly 2,000 woodworking tools from prehistoric to modern, put together by British builder, tells stories of the making of our worldThe implements used for edging and boring and planing sound as far from being aesthetically pleasing as... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Babe creator Dick King-Smith dies aged 88
Prolific author of 'farmyard fantasies' for children, whose book The Sheep-Pig was adapted into Hollywood hit, passes away at homeChildren's author Dick King-Smith, whose much-loved tale The Sheep-Pig was adapted into the hit film Babe, has died at the age... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
New Huckleberry Finn edition censors 'n-word'
Alabama publisher says expurgation of more than 200 'hurtful epithets' will counter 'pre-emptive censorship' that has seen Mark Twain's classic dropped from curriculaA new US edition of Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to be published... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Amazon withdraws ebook explaining how to manipulate its sales rankings
Ebook claiming one can become a Kindle 'bestseller' simply by posting fake reviews temporarily removed from bookseller's listingsThe author of an ebook that gives details on how easily Amazon's bestseller rankings can be manipulated has accused the online retail giant... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Publisher Tinkers With Twain
A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” makes a change in language.... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Critic’s Notebook: Is Ballet Dying? Sure, It’s Died Many Times
One of the keenest debates in dance right now has been about something larger: is ballet itself dead or dying?... More...
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Writer who was rejected 100 times is finally rewarded
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Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
Nigeria: The happiest place on earth
Nigeria is beset by poverty, corruption and violence – but a poll says it is the world's most optimistic nationThe arrivals hall at Murtala Mohammed international airport in Lagos has the kind of humidity that feels like a warm towel.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Debut writer Jason Wallace wins Costa book award for Robert Mugabe novel
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Edmund de Waal leads Costa book awards finalists
Epic family memoir sparked by some miniature heirlooms installed as favourite for £30,000 prizeA book that uses 264 delicate Japanese carvings to tell the extraordinary story of a family living through tumultous events in Paris and Vienna was tonight named... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Annie Proulx recounts building her dream home in Wyoming.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
ArtsBeat: Bloomsbury Auctions Reviewing Plans for New York Branch
Recent auction results have been disappointing.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending
The centennial of his death was treated with ambivalence as intellectuals and the church debated his legacy.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Books on Science: Getting to Know Your Neighbors Below the Surface
Over the last 10 years, thousands of scientists have collaborated on an enormous research effort to catalog the plants and animals in the world’s oceans.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Struggling Borders to Meet With Publishers
Borders told publishers it would delay payments and stoked fear that it would not recover from declining sales.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly see the “human indecision that plagues us all” and explain how we got into this mess and how we can overcome it.... More...
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Tuesday, 4 January, 2011
Paper Cuts: The Art of the Very Long Sentence
In a recent essay for the Book Review, I wrote about the art of the very long sentence. Many readers sent me their own favorite examples.... More...
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Monday, 3 January, 2011
Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68
Ms. Vega was a poet who found adventure and inspiration among the Beats in Greenwich Village.... More...
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Monday, 3 January, 2011
Books of The Times: Staying Civil as the World Convulses
“Being Polite to Hitler,” the third novel in Robb Forman Dew’s trilogy, considers how people can go on being pleasant in a world that is frequently terrible.... More...
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Monday, 3 January, 2011
Scotland stalls on new poet laureate
Post remains unfilled three months after first makar's death and confusion surrounds selection criteriaEdwin Morgan was Scotland's greatest living poet and the natural choice in 2004 to become the country's first makar – its national poet laureate. In fact, the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 2 January, 2011
Off the Shelf: Prosperity, Real or Imagined
In “Inflated,” a new book, R. Christopher Whalen looks at history to try to understand the long-term viability of the American economy after the financial crisis.... More...
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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
Amazon allows customers to lend e-books to just one friend
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Saturday, 1 January, 2011
