Books of The Times: ‘The Neighborhood Project’ by David Sloan Wilson - Review
David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary biologist, uses his training for social good: his neighborhood.... More...
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Justice League'
Times staffers and comic-book fans George Gene Gustines and Adam W. Kepler will review all of the 52 DC Comics titles that have been rebooted as part of a company-wide effort.... More...
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Imagining the Rolling Stones Without Keith Richards
A Times critic offers an alternate canon of Stones songs.... More...
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Guardian first book award longlist: fiction takes lead
Subjects range from 9/11 to gang warfare in London, while non-fiction titles include biography of cancerFrom gang warfare in south London to the aftermath of 9/11, a fiction-heavy longlist for the Guardian first book award shows engagement with the realities... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Children's Books : Children's Books - 'Bailey' - Written and illustrated by Harry Bliss - Review
This picture book features a big-eared mutt whose presence at school is both welcome and unquestioned.... More...
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Waterstone's ends 3-for-2 book offers
High-street chain abandons influential sales promotion after a decadeNo longer will readers be able to chuck a third free book onto their pile of purchases as they head to the till at Waterstone's: the UK's biggest bookseller is bringing its... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Edinburgh international book festival launches publishing project
Collection of specially commissioned work from authors including Roddy Doyle and Amy Bloom will be produced in collaboration with McSweeney'sNew work by around 50 leading authors curated by the Edinburgh international book festival is to be released in a new... More...
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
DC Comics Reboots Justice League and Other Series
In rebooting all its continuing series, including Justice League and Action Comics, DC Comics will revise or jettison decades of continuity in its heroes’ lives.... More...
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Barnes & Noble pins its hopes on Nook e-reader
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Boycott scuppers Kashmiri literary festival
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
Books of The Times: ‘Jagger,’ by Marc Spitz - Review
With the biography “Jagger,” Marc Spitz weighs in on the longstanding grievances between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Dick Cheney autobiography heaps praise on Tony Blair
Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W Bush, pays tribute to 'one of America's closest and best allies in the war on terror'He may or may not welcome it, but Tony Blair has had lavish praise heaped on him by the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Poetry by Kathleen Ossip, Tracy K. Smith and Others - Review
Poetry collections by Kathleesn Ossip, Tracy K. Smitjh, Jane Hirschfield, Dilruba Ahmed and William Carlos Williams.... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Tom Perrotta Discusses the Themes of ‘The Leftovers.’
In “The Leftovers,” the comic novelist Tom Perrotta advances the more complicated worldview that has characterized his most recent works.... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Amazon to take on Apple's iPad, as iTunes Match shows off streaming
Jeff Bezos's firm expected to release a tablet computer before Christmas to add to its dominance of the ereader marketAmazon is expected to release a tablet computer before Christmas which analysts forecast will finally provide serious competition for Apple's iPad,... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: When Foul Language Brings Fouls
The study was meant to shed light on the larger question of whether referees should apply the letter or spirit of the law. Should "an appropriate decision" be given preference over an "officially correct" judgment?... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Madonna's Sex most sought after out-of-print book
Explicit coffee-table title continues to be in hot demand, according to Bookfinder researchMadonna's explicit book Sex is once again America's most sought after out-of-print title of the year, according to BookFinder's annual report.... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Adonis becomes first Arab writer to win Goethe prize
Syrian-born Nobel favourite takes prestigious German awardThe Syrian poet Adonis has become the first Arab writer to win Germany's prestigious Goethe prize.... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Kashmir book festival cancelled amid fears of violence
First ever literary festival in the contested Indian region called off after fears of troubleKashmir's first ever literary festival has been cancelled following concerns from organisers that it could erupt into violence.... More...
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Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Books: Two Doctors Take a Patient-Centric Approach in New Books
Two new books — one on prostate cancer, the other on the sad state of medicine today — take a patient-centric approach.... More...
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Monday, 29 August, 2011
Findings: The Local Food Movement Is Rooted in Globalization
The foods we consider local are results of a globalization process that has been in full swing for more than five centuries.... More...
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Monday, 29 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns
James W. Pennebaker, author of the new book "The Secret Life of Pronouns," crunches the numbers on Beatles songs using text analysis programs and arrives at some fascinating conclusions.... More...
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Monday, 29 August, 2011
Books of The Times: ‘The Cut’ by George Pelecanos - Review
A novel from George Pelecanos, a writer and producer of “The Wire,” introduces Spero Lucas, a Washington investigator.... More...
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Sunday, 28 August, 2011
AS Byatt tells Edinburgh audience why she loves reading Terry Pratchett
Booker prize-winning novelist explains why she is such a profound pessimist – and why reading novels gives her hopeHe is the doyen of fantasy and one of the most widely read authors in Britain. She is the Booker prize-winning queen... More...
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Sunday, 28 August, 2011
Edinburgh international book festival diary
Jackie Kay, Colin Thubron and AL Kennedy in our honorary awards to mark the end of the Edinburgh Book Festival• Some end-of-term reports as the Edinburgh international book festival edges towards its close. Most excitable introduction to an author award... More...
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Sunday, 28 August, 2011
Polish journalist Adam Michnik receives Goethe medal
Former dissident and now publisher of Poland's biggest newspaper honoured for work for international cultural relationsOne of Poland's leading journalists and intellectuals has been awarded the Goethe medal in recognition of his "outstanding" contribution to the dialogue between eastern and... More...
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Sunday, 28 August, 2011
Arab spring has created 'intelligence disaster', warns former CIA agent
Michael Scheuer, who led Bin Laden hunt, tells Edinburgh international book festival intelligence has dried up due to US and UK support for revolutionThe Arab spring has "delighted al-Qaida" and caused "an intelligence disaster" for the US and Britain, the... More...
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Sunday, 28 August, 2011
Francesca Simon: 'I wanted Horrid Henry to be like Cain and Abel'
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Sunday, 28 August, 2011
Bookshelf: Books Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
A sampling of books devoted to the remembrances of New Yorkers who survived the attack.... More...
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Saturday, 27 August, 2011
The Buddha in the Attic - By Julie Otsuka - Book Review
In Julie Otsuka’s novel, Japanese women sail to America in the early 1900s to become the wives of men they have not met.... More...
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Saturday, 27 August, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Penn Jillette, the taller and louder half of Penn & Teller, appears on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 14 with his profanity-laced memoir-cum-atheist-manifesto “God, No!”... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Reading Life : Reading Life: What We Do to Books
The creases, the annotations and the blood stains all imprint a book with the fact of my having read it.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Essay: Essay - A Veteran Baseball Novel Comes Off the Bench - By Matt Weiland
Robert Coover’s classic revels in the sun-bright vitality of the game while plumbing its dark truths.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Starting From Happy - Written and illustrated by Patricia Marx - Book Review
In this illustrated novel, a woman content to be alone meets her mate.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Life on Mars - By Tracy K. Smith - Book Review
The poet Tracy Smith imagines a soundtrack for the universe and mourns her father, who worked on the Hubble Telescope.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
The Magician King - By Lev Grossman - Book Review
A sequel to “The Magicians” revolves around an unexpected quest.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Wendy and the Lost Boys - By Julie Salamon - Book Review
A biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein reveals a full and complicated life.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
The Enigma of Joseph Heller
A biography and a memoir examine the life and career of the author of “Catch-22.”... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Redeemers - By Enrique Krauze - Book Review
A look at literary and political figures in Latin America.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
The Leftovers - By Tom Perrotta - Book Review
Tom Perrotta’s new novel examines how ordinary people react to extraordinary situations in the wake of a rapturelike event that has whisked millions of people off the face of the earth.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Unthinkable? Rehabilitating RD Laing | Editorial
He's been unfashionable for decades, but in an era of big-pharma and proliferating diagnoses, is it time to reassess?The trouble with great men or women who lead the kind of lives described as "colourful" is that they provide critics with... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 26 August, 2011
Simon Hoggart's week: In Kerry Katona's world, hacking is a help
Staying in the news is vital for celebrities who are only known for being famous✒Daniel Boorstin, the American writer, said "the celebrity is someone who is known for his well-knownness". I thought of this when reading about Kerry Katona, who's... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 26 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Tom Perrotta's 'Leftovers'
Featuring Tom Perrotta on the fictional Rapture in his new book, "The Leftovers"; and Erica Heller on her father, Catch-22 author Joseph Heller.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist
Hisham Matar speaks at Edinburgh international book festival after rebel cousin shot dead in Gaddafi's compound"The moment that the Libyan rebels entered the Gaddafi compound was astonishing: and it was also slightly eerie. You could see bullets, but no faces.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
The Curfew - By Jesse Ball - Book Review
This dystopian novel reveals a world where music is banned and punishment is swift.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
David Hare wins PEN/Pinter prize
Playwright David Hare declared 'a worthy winner' of prize established by English PEN to celebrate the late Harold PinterFrom the privatisation of the railways to the invasion of Iraq, the banking crisis to the British press, the "unflinching, unswerving" gaze... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 26 August, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Up Front: Dan Kois
An avid chronicler of Harry Potter’s exploits, Dan Kois is also the creator of Ron Weasley’s Facebook page and wrote an obituary for Hedwig the owl.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
The Secret Life of Pronouns - By James W. Pennebaker - Book Review
A psychologist argues that pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and conjunctions reflect our interior lives.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Nonfiction Chronicle
Books about the history of smallpox, Shakespeare’s impact, Anna Politkovskaya’s journalistic work in Russia and growing up in the Southern Baptist church.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
Crime: Crime - Mystery Novels by Mark Billingham, James Sallis, Maureen Jennings and Kjell Eriksson
Mystery novels by Mark Billingham, James Sallis, Maureen Jennings and Kjell Eriksson.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
The Byronic look: overweight and unattractive
BBC series on Regency Britain paints an unflattering portrait of 'self-regarding poser' Lord ByronWhen a man is noted for his Byronic looks he is generally chuffed – dark, handsome, attractively unavailable. Slightly morose, it's true, but in a sexy way.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 26 August, 2011
The short life and cruel death of Libyan freedom fighter Izz al-Arab Matar
Booker prize-shortlisted Libyan novelist Hisham Matar writes movingly of how his cousin was killed by a sniper in Muammar Gaddafi's compoundMy cousin Izz al-Arab Matar, a 22-year-old final-year student in engineering, was shot in Bab al-Aziziya, Muammar Gaddafi's fortified compound... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 26 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Dick Cheney Tells His Side in Memoir ‘In My Time’ - Review
The famously tight-lipped Dick Cheney reveals his “undisclosed locations” and disagreements he had with the president and administration officials in his memoir of the Bush years.... More...
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Friday, 26 August, 2011
I was not a Nazi collaborator, PG Wodehouse told MI5
Creator of Jeeves was upset at British criticism of his wartime broadcasts from BerlinPG Wodehouse was questioned by MI5 as a suspected collaborator for broadcasting from Berlin during the second world war. The creator of Jeeves protested that he was... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 26 August, 2011
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad involved in new Nazi claims
Author says Swedish police kept file on Ingvar Kamprad, claiming that his flirtation with Nazism went deeper than 'youthful confusion'A new book claims Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's youth ties with Nazi groups extended beyond what he has previously admitted, saying... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 25 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Lineup for 2011 New Yorker Festival Is Announced
Chris Colfer, Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Nancy Pelosi and Richard Dawkins will be among the actors, performers, comedians, politicians, bigwigs, authors and atheist contrarians appearing at the festival.... More...
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Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Nasa hopes novel mission will take science fiction to new frontiers
A new collaboration is set to pair authors and scientists to produce a series of science-based novels to inspire the explorers and inventors of the futureTime travel and warp drives may, alas, be out of the picture in a new... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Murakami off reading lists in New Jersey
Complaints from parents led to Haruki Miurakami's Norwegian Wood being dropped from summer reading lists in Williamstown, New JerseyHaruki Murakami's venerated novel of love and mental illness, Norwegian Wood, has been pulled off a reading list for New Jersey teenagers... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 25 August, 2011
BBC4 to air adaptation of The Slap
Eight-part drama based on Christos Tsiolkas's controversial bestseller will star Sophie Okonedo and Jonathan La PagliaBBC4 is to air an Australian adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas's controversial bestselling novel The Slap.... More...
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Thursday, 25 August, 2011
British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages
Library will display treasures such as illuminated royal transcripts and a 13th century pilgrimage route map as part of new showThey may have been called the "dark ages", but a new exhibition at the British Library will aim to show... More...
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Thursday, 25 August, 2011
Books of The Times: ‘The Leftovers’ by Tom Perrotta - Review
Tom Perrotta’s new novel explores how people cope with grief after loved ones disappear into thin air.... More...
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Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author
Jo Nesbø says his country's reaction to the killings made him proud to be NorwegianJo Nesbø, the Norwegian author whose books about the driven, enigmatic detective Harry Hole have made him a bestseller in Britain, said yesterday it was inevitable... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Children's Books : Children's Books - Picture Books About Sick Days
“Llama Llama Home with Mama” and “Bear’s Loose Tooth” are two new picture books that deal with childhood fevers, aches and pains.... More...
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Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Stephen King launches leftwing radio show
Author's new talkshow, hosted by the Green party's Pat LaMarche, aims to stall right's domination of airwaves and make people 'a little bit angry'Stephen King is hoping to "make some people a little bit angry" with a new, left-leaning morning... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Books stolen by Nazis to be returned
Berlin library to return books confiscated from Germany's Social Democrats during the Third Reich, among them an edition of The Communist Manifesto thought to belong to Friedrich EngelsAlmost 70 books stolen from the Social Democratic party by the Nazi regime... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Jorge Luis Borges' Google doodle celebrates the master of magical realism
Search engine giant pays tribute to revered Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges for his contribution to science fiction and magical realism genresThe labyrinthine mind of Jorge Luis Borges was celebrated today by Google with a doodle to mark what would... More...
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Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Ghosts of Gone Birds: exhibition enlists artists to save endangered species
Ambitious multimedia art project will bring together works from high-profile musicians, writers and poets inspired by extinct birdsThey are all, alas, bleeding demised, passed on, no more, ceased to be, bereft of life and resting in peace. Like Monty Python's... More...
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Wednesday, 24 August, 2011
Booktrack Introduces E-Books With Soundtracks
Booktrack, a start-up company in New York, is planning to release e-books with soundtracks that play throughout the books, a technology that its founders hope will change the way many novels are read.... More...
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
Books of The Times: ‘Disaster Was My God,’ by Bruce Duffy - Review
In his historical novel, “Disaster Was My God,” Bruce Duffy imagines why the youthful genius Rimbaud gave up the literary life.... More...
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
This week's arts diary
The Dean Martin tribe, Finnegan's mobile and Stella Rimington's 007 gaffeScotland the verbose✒We recorded a fascinating discussion on Scottish literature for the Guardian books podcast, which you can hear on our website on Monday. Writers Andrew O'Hagan and John Niven... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
Notting Hill bookshop fights closure with poets and writers
The Travel Bookshop played a starring role in the 1999 film with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, but is now due to closePoets and writers are engaged in fighting to save a west London bookshop which served as the backdrop... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
Italy's bridges weighed down by locks of love
Lovers write their names on a padlock, attach it to a bridge and throw keys in the river in romantic act inspired by novelOn top of its usual problems of rising flood waters, sinking palazzi, tourist congestion and corrosive pigeon... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
Robert Harris to adapt his novel The Fear Index for the screen
Novelist to write screenplay for financial crisis thriller, with The Bourne Ultimatum's Paul Greengrass tipped to directRobert Harris is to follow-up the success of his Roman Polanski collaboration, The Ghost, reports the Daily Telegraph. The British novelist, who co-wrote Polanski's... More...
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
Barack Obama escapes into fiction on holiday
President's reading focused on novels during his family break in Martha's VineyardBarack Obama has chosen Daniel Woodrell's acclaimed slice of noir crime fiction The Bayou Trilogy, where "corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life", for his holiday reading.... More...
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
Connie Willis wins 11th Hugo award
Two-volume time-travel sequence, Blackout and All Clear, secures author's remarkable haulConnie Willis's gripping portrait of London during the Blitz has won the American author a remarkable 11th Hugo award.... More...
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: The Seemingly Persistent Rise of Plagiarism
Four of every five dissertations examined in a study by Dora D. Clarke-Pine, an associate professor of psychology, contained passages with 10 or more words copied without proper attribution.... More...
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: E-Book Author Signs Print Deal With Simon & Schuster
John Locke, the self-published e-book author of the Donovan Creed thrillers, has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish his work in print.... More...
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Monday, 22 August, 2011
Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO
Author tells Edinburgh book festival of project to develop tale of ancient gods in modern US into TV seriesNeil Gaiman is to start work "in a couple of weeks" on adapting his bestselling novel American Gods into a TV series... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 22 August, 2011
Stieg Larsson's final novel '70% complete', colleague claims
Kurdo Baksi says he was shown manuscript for sequel to Millennium Trilogy, which would 'make the perfect Hollywood film'The fourth novel by Stieg Larsson, author of the 30m-selling Millennium Trilogy, is 70% complete, strongly features Camilla Salander, the twin of... More...
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Monday, 22 August, 2011
Novelist may have been victim of psychics' $40m scam, court told
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Monday, 22 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Font Pain and Poetry: So Much Depends on a Curve
“Just My Type: A Book About Fonts” is an accessible book that makes typography noticeable and fun for people who had no idea they were interested in the subject.... More...
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Sunday, 21 August, 2011
Riff: Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace
How he both inadvertently created the voice of the Internet and ruined a generation of writers.... More...
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Sunday, 21 August, 2011
News Analysis: Fairies, Witches and Supply and Demand
Once economics is on the brain, it seems to pop up a lot in children’s literature.... More...
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Sunday, 21 August, 2011
Off the Shelf: Of Management and Mosquito Nets
In his new book, “Lifeblood,” Alex Perry shows how philanthropists have applied management principles to charitable work around the world.... More...
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Saturday, 20 August, 2011
Christopher Robin's Devon bookshop to close
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Saturday, 20 August, 2011
A Novel of Grief, Memorials and a Muslim Architect in Post-9/11 America
Amy Waldman’s new novel concerns the controversy surrounding the choice of a Muslim to design a 9/11 memorial.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Young Adult : Divided by Date Rape
Jenny Downham renews the classic formula of star-crossed romance in a story that forces a choice between youthful passion and family loyalty.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Steven Brill's 'Class Warfare'
On the cover of this Sunday's Book Review, Sara Mosle reviews Steven Brill's new book.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Young Adult: Shakespeare and Austen, Updated
Two young adult novels re-imagine two high-school staples, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Hamlet.”... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Shy, Bookish and Beastly Creatures
Creatures in need of companionship are the main features in these three picture books.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Being the New Kid Isn’t Easy
Three new picture books deal with the pursuit of friendship.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Elephants in the Room
The land heavyweights of the animal kingdom figure largely in three picture books.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Middle School Mischief
Two bullies are redeemed through art and one remains defiantly unrepentant.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Last Lullaby for My Son
In her memoir, the poet Kelle Groom struggles with the loss of her son.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
When Art Happened to L.A.
An account of how the Los Angeles art scene hit the big time in the 1960s.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
“Unlikely Friendships,” No. 7 on the paperback nonfiction list, chronicles some surprising pairings from the animal kingdom. But can these relationships last long enough for a sequel?... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Simon Hoggart's week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks
Wet Edinburgh is the place to plug a book, see a familial fringe foray and hear the one about the magician and the media baron✒To Edinburgh, for the festival. The weather forecast promised clouds and sunny intervals, which meant the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 19 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Ghost Stories
The manga list has the only new arrival this week, a "three-in-one" edition of Bleach. Recent collected DC Comics editions have focused on the rich past of the company's heroes.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation
Playwright's biographer, Christopher Bigsby, defends work produced in later years at Edinburgh book festivalWhen dramatist Arthur Miller died in 2005, the Wall Street Journal obituary was headlined "The Great Pretender: Arthur Miller wasn't well liked – and with good reason".... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 19 August, 2011
Edinburgh international book festival diary
Rosamund Bartlett, Maggie O'Farrell, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Val McDermid and Stella Rimington appear before the literati• A riveting session at the Edinburgh international book festival from Rosamund Bartlett, biographer of Tolstoy, caused one to spare a thought for his wife,... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something
Marissa Moss’s book series for young readers, “Daphne’s Diary of Daily Disasters,” takes on the highs and lows of fourth grade.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Middle School Angst
Narrated by a brainy female outcast, this book is the third volume in James Howe’s “Misfits” series.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Steve Brill’s Report Card on School Reform
In “Class Warfare,” Steven Brill brings a sharp legal mind to the world of education reform and mounts a zealous case against America’s teachers’ unions.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books : Bookshelf: Back to School
Children’s and young adult books about behavioral issues at school, creative play, dealing with bullies and more.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children’s Bookshelf: Back to School
Picture books about school and imaginative play.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Children's Books: ‘Nasty School’ and Other Poems
Selections from “Every Thing on It.”... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Seeds, Germs and Slaves
Charles C. Mann argues that ecological encounters since Columbus have affected much of subsequent human history.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
A Tale of a Highly Articulate Cuckold
A protagonist with an odd manner of speaking strives to win back his fiancée from a hunter of giant squid.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Are All of Our Leaders Mad?
A specialist in bipolar disorder explores whether madness improves political leadership.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Essay: Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope?
Boys’ aversion to reading, let alone to novels, has been worsening for years, prompting the question — what turns boys into readers?... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Up Front: Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein knew that school is far more than A B C’s and 1 2 3’s — it’s about how children figure out who they are and where they fit into the world.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Editors’ Choice
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Fiction Chronicle
Novels by Kevin Wilson, David Whitehouse, Maxine Swann and Francis Levy.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: What About the Reluctant Reader?
In a video interview, James Patterson, the mega-selling author of novels for adults and children, including the Maximum Ride series, and Rick Riordan, a former teacher and the author of the beloved Percy Jackson series, discussed how to get children... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
JK Rowling author offer denounced as 'completely false'
US publisher offering to introduce writers' work to Harry Potter author for a fee condemned by spokesman for the authorAuthors who were hoping that Harry Potter creator JK Rowling might be induced to sprinkle a little fairy dust on their... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Dickens statue planned for Portsmouth
Monument by sculptor Martin Jennings scheduled for bicentenary in 2012Charles Dickens might have written that he wanted no "monument, memorial, or testimonial whatsoever" to be erected in his name, but the UK's first ever statue of the great author is... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Males in the frame as Gold Dagger shortlist revealed
Only one woman among finalists for this year's prestigious crime novel awardFrom deception during a Russian winter to murder in rural Mississippi, suicide at a Kent mansion to a savage killing in Glasgow, the shortlist for the Crime Writers' Association's... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It
Patricia Bosworth’s “Jane Fonda” is about a younger woman who had very little idea of who she was, while Ms. Fonda’s “Prime Time” is a how-to book about being happy at 73.... More...
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
$84m James Patterson tops best-paid authors list
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
$84m Patterson tops best-paid authors list
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
What the...? Dickens to get unwanted statue
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
Diet book for girls as young as six provokes outrage from doctors
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Friday, 19 August, 2011
James Patterson declared world's best-paid author by Forbes magazine
Patterson earned $84m in the year to April 2011, Danielle Steel $35m, Stephen King $28m and Janet Evanovich $22m The world's highest-paid author padded to the windows of his magnificent, yellow, colonial-style mansion overlooking the sea at Palm Beach. And... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography
Acclaimed biographer of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw tells Edinburgh international book festival that his current work – A Book of Secrets – will be his lastBiography is a genre in crisis, according to perhaps Britain's best-known biographer, the... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
Rosamund Pike to star with Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher film One Shot
The film has already attracted criticism from book fans for casting 5ft 7in Cruise as the 6ft 5in, blond heroRosamund Pike will star opposite Tom Cruise in the action flick One Shot, based on a Jack Reacher novel by Lee... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
Poetry Society reinstates Judith Palmer as director
Palmer, who resigned from the troubled organisation in May, will be back in post from next weekJudith Palmer has been reinstated as director of the Poetry Society after some of the country's best known poets, including Simon Armitage, Carol Ann... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: 'The Snowy Day' Celebrates 50 Years
A snowy date would be most refreshing during the dregs of August, which is why the publication today of the 50th anniversary edition of "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats is such a welcome event.... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
James Patterson brand makes him world's best-paid writer
Earnings of $84m last year more than double nearest rival'sBook chains might be closing down and book sales tumbling, but the thriller powerhouse that is James Patterson just keeps on growing. Forbes magazine's annual look at the world's best-paid authors... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
Jane McKie wins Edwin Morgan poetry prize
'Leper Window, St Mary the Virgin' beats 1,200 other contenders to the £5,000 prizeJane McKie's poem "Leper Window, St Mary the Virgin" has won the Edwin Morgan international poetry competition - at just 47 words long, earning her £106 per... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
Old Bailey Trials Are Tabulated for Scholars Online
Digital tabulation methods allow historians to tabulate trials from 1764 to 1913 at the Old Bailey in London.... More...
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Thursday, 18 August, 2011
Currents | Books: ‘Nano House’ Explores the Realm of the Tiny
“Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings,” by Phyllis Richardson, examines small dwellings around the world.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Amazon's publishing arm signs up Timothy Ferriss
Self-help guru's latest book will be published by the online giant, as mainstream publishers admit fearing Amazon's 'big pockets'Amazon has made the first major acquisition for its New York-based publishing imprint by snapping up the rights to bestselling self-help author... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Newly Released Books
New books from Gordon Reece, Robert Olen Butler, Jennifer Close, Brandi Lynn Ryder, Evan Mandery and James Sallis.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Books of The Times: And Now, Wendy Gets Her Chronicles
“Wendy and the Lost Boys” is Julie Salamon’s biography of the playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who died in 2006.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Philip Glass to Write Memoir
Mr. Glass, a pioneer of Minimalist composing, has signed a book contract, according to the publisher W.W. Norton & Company.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
T Magazine: Bookshelf
On T’s bookshelf this month: a survey of the work of Hussein Chalayan, “Happy Accidents” by “Glee” star Jane Lynch, Cherie Burns’s account of the life of Millicent Rogers and a collection of stories by Sandra Novack.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Children’s Books: The Sweet Side of Sibling Rivalry
“Mine!” and “The Twins’ Blanket” are two new picture books about warring siblings aimed at the youngest readers and rivals.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Amazon Set to Publish Pop Author
Amazon moved aggressively to fulfill its new ambition to publish books as well as sell them, announcing that it had signed Timothy Ferriss, the popular self-help guru.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Amazon strikes first 'major' publishing deal
The online retailer's aggressive move into publishing has continued with its signing of bestselling self-help author Timothy FerrissAmazon.com has made the first "major" acquisition for its New York-based publishing imprint, snapping up rights in bestselling self-help author Timothy Ferriss's new... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Steve McQueen to direct 12 Years a Slave
British film-maker casts Chiwetel Ejiofor in true story of mixed-race man abducted and forced into bondage in LouisianaBritish artist turned film-maker Steve McQueen has cast Chiwetel Ejiofor in the drama 12 Years a Slave, the true-life story of a mixed-race... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
T Magazine: Off the Shelf | ‘The Wanderings of Odysseus’
This week, T talks to the restaurateur Andrew Tarlow of Marlow & Sons about his affinity for ancient Greek myths.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
T Magazine: Champagne by the Case
The bubbly flowed, the diamonds too. For one good-time girl in '70s L.A., it seemed like the party would never end.... More...
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Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Brooklyn Takes a Bow as a Town of Writers
Evan Hughes takes in Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe and the young and hip of today.... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Two Rick Perry Books Are on the Way
Mr. Perry's entry into the Republican presidential nomination could be good for publishers, if not for his competitors.... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Angst Before High School
Harvard researchers find that elite high schools may not serve their students' long-term goals.... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
Charlotte Roche revisits mix of sex and controversy in new novel, Schossgebete
The Wetlands author's latest book, which explores sex within marriage, has been criticised by feminists and her familyWhen Charlotte Roche had her debut novel published in 2008 she scandalised Germany's book world with a tale about a teenager sent to... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
Orlando Figes to give away royalties from next book
Historian promises he will donate to charity half his earnings from study of gulag internee's secret correspondenceHistorian Orlando Figes has vowed to donate half of the takings from his next book to charity.... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
Guardian books podcast helps Jackie Kay to meet birth sisters
Interview with author about her memoir prompts siblings to get in touchThe award-winning Scottish poet Jackie Kay, who was adopted as a baby, recently made contact with her birth sisters for the first time – thanks in part to an... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
Books of The Times: The Right Architect With the Wrong Name
“The Submission,” the debut novel by Amy Waldman, tackles the aftermath of a terrorist attack similar to 9/11.... More...
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
First Sight: Pottermore.com, the internet
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Tuesday, 16 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: T.S. Eliot Devotees Angered by Plans to Develop East Coker
Now a proposal do the first - build a development with 3,750 houses and an industrial estate on the edge of East Coker, in Somerset - has triggered protests from Eliot devotees.... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Books on Science: Shorelines, Sandy or Otherwise, That May Not Last
Four coastal scientists have come to the aid of the beach curious with a comprehensive, readable guide to the physical features of many kinds of beaches and the threats they face.... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Pottermore: A first look inside Harry Potter's digital world
First million users enrol at digital Hogwarts, learning from new content by JK RowlingFrom flying letters to a 4,500 word-discourse on wand woods, early access to JK Rowling's move into the digital arena, Pottermore, reveals a richly-imagined, elaborately realised behind-the-scenes... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Naked poets bare all for calendar of male muses
Female photographers donate services for diabetes fundraising projectEver since Wordsworth launched English Romanticism with the publication of Lyrical Ballads, the wilds of the Lake District have been synonymous with poets baring their souls. But this weekend an assortment of male... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Groovy baby! It's the pitter patter of Bridget Jones 3 and Austin Powers 4
Bridget Jones to return in a pregnancy love triangle while Austin Powers may swing back to the big screen, according to reportsA third Bridget Jones film is set to enter production, according to Entertainment Weekly. The site reports that Working... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Sarah Brown joined onstage by husband at Edinburgh book festival
Couple answered questions about phone-hacking scandal, and Gordon Brown spoke out against Sun newspaper's attempts to "destroy his character"Taking to the stage as a surprise guest during his wife Sarah Brown's appearance at the Edinburgh international book festival, former prime... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Books of The Times: A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture
Ernest Cline’s novel “Ready Player One” imagines a world so grim that a virtual reality based on ’80s pop culture is the key to life.... More...
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Monday, 15 August, 2011
Alasdair Gray honoured by Edinburgh book festival on Lanark anniversary
'Most important Scottish writer since Walter Scott' speaks about masterpiece and more recent work at literary eventIt is 30 years since the publication of Alasdair Gray's novel Lanark – a masterpiece that, while perhaps still less well read than it... More...
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Sunday, 14 August, 2011
News Analysis: In St. Louis, I’m a Failure
Amazon now allows writers to check weekly print sales figures from retailers around the country, possibly encouraging an obsession with the statistics.... More...
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Sunday, 14 August, 2011
Off The Shelf: Inside the Greek Volcano
In a new book, the hedge fund founder Jason Manolopoulos analyzes the roots of Greece’s problems — and the larger reverberations.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Love, the Many-Splendored Emotion
Lisa Appignanesi examines the “unruly emotion” of love and its impact throughout the course of our lives.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Editors’ Choice
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz: Intimacy at a Distance
An annotated selection of the voluminous correspondence between the painter and the photographer.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Race, Inheritance and Returning to the South
Lorene Cary’s latest novel explores a family’s struggle involving race and inheritance in the South.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Nonfiction Chronicle
Books about the Monty Python actor Michael Palin, sex abuse within the Mormon Church and murder and racial issues in 1960s New York; and a collection of essays by Edward Hoagland.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Essay: Dragons Ascendant: George R. R. Martin and the Rise of Fantasy
The titanic success of George R. R. Martin’s gritty “Song of Ice and Fire” series has swept away the traditional “aren’t we a little old for this?” view of fantasy.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Romantic Mischief in 1930s Manhattan
The characters in Amor Towles’s first novel try to reinvent themselves in 1930s New York.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
A Novel of Nigeria, Scotland and the Quest for Perfect Silence
In this novel, a shy writer with tinnitus embraces the quiet relief of storytelling.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
A Good Man Is Impossible to Find
The characters in Donald Ray Pollock’s violence-soaked novel march in a parade of betrayals, sacrifices, suicides, rapes and executions.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
A Writer’s Beginnings in Kenya
Finding refuge in fiction, a Kenyan teenager becomes a writer in this coming-of-age memoir.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe
The inexhaustibly curious physicist David Deutsch offers views on everything from subatomic particles to the shaping of the universe itself.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
The Curse of Musical Nostalgia
Simon Reynolds laments how pop culture feeds on its own history, borrowing from a past that is ever more immediate.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
A Hacker Tells All
A pioneer of the corporate-computer break-in recounts the hacking exploits that led him on a nearly 20-year cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
A Rough Rider Tackles a Rough Sport
This history of football’s early years examines how, over a century ago, the sport’s opponents wanted it banned; then Theodore Roosevelt stepped into the huddle.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Up Front: Sam Lipsyte
The author of the novel “The Ask” knows a thing or two about writing sex scenes.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Bookshelf: What They Said, Exactly, About New York
Two new books, “New York: The Big Apple Quote Book” and “Literary Brooklyn” explore sentiments about the city and a borough that inspires literature.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran
At 53, Ehsan Yarshater embarked on his magnum opus, a definitive encyclopedia of Iranian history and culture. He’s 91 now, and he’s still toiling away.... More...
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Saturday, 13 August, 2011
Birmingham for Tariq Jahan by Carol Ann Duffy
Tariq Jahan lost his son, Haroon, in a hit and run incident during the riots in Winson Green, Birmingham on WednesdayAfter the evening prayers at the mosque,... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Nicholson Baker's 'House of Holes'
In Sunday's Book Review, Sam Lipsyte reviews Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes"; Deborah Soloman on the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and more.... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books
After the death of her eldest sister, Nina Sankovitch turned to books: reading and writing them.... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
Inside Nicholson Baker’s Sexual Utopia
Nicholson Baker’s hilarious, extremely dirty novel is an episodic assortment of fantasies that celebrate desire, frailty and the comedy of life.... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Can a literary vegetarian from Brooklyn unite what basketball has torn asunder? Why else would Duke and the University of North Carolina have assigned Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” to all incoming freshmen?... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: The 80th Anniversary of Babar
A video interview with Laurent de Brunhoff, who has kept his father's Babar character alive for 80 years.... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
Kashmir's first literary festival hit by controversy
Organisers face criticism that 'apolitical' event in the disputed Indian state is an 'exercise in propaganda'With its placid lakes, snow-capped mountains, and deep cultural heritage, Kashmir would seem to be the perfect location for a literary festival. Yet the first... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
Hardback sales plummeting in age of the ebook
Sales of adult hardback fiction have fallen by over 10% this year alone, with ebooks now accounting for 13.6% of US marketDramatic falls in hardback sales are turning the triumph of the ebook into a defeat for paper publishing, with... More...
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
Potter casts one final spell on Bloomsbury
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Friday, 12 August, 2011
Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race
Randall Kennedy’s new book sets what we know of Barack Obama’s presidency in relief against the sorry history of racial politics in America.... More...
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Thursday, 11 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: Sales Soar for Newly Minted Poet Laureate
Some of Philip Levine's books are nearly impossible to buy.... More...
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Thursday, 11 August, 2011
Apple and major publishers face lawsuit over ebook 'price fixing'
Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins among firms accused of colluding to scupper Amazon's consumer-friendly $9.99 rateA class-action lawsuit has been filed in the US alleging that Apple and five major publishers "colluded ... to illegally fix prices" of ebooks.... More...
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Thursday, 11 August, 2011
Philip Levine appointed new US poet laureate
'I would like to bring attention to the people I've written about,' says working-class writer of role, which commences in OctoberPulitzer prize winner Philip Levine, known for his detailed and personal verse about the working class, has been appointed the... More...
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Thursday, 11 August, 2011
House Proud: A Cottage Just Right for Frodo
The Hobbit House, a guesthouse, brings the shire to Montana, with cottages, fairy houses and other tiny structures dotting 20 acres of land.... More...
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Thursday, 11 August, 2011
Books of The Times: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity
Nassir Ghaemi argues for the gloomy and even the unhinged in his book on the relationship between leadership and mental illness.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Nurturing Weird Families in Tennessee
In his first novel, “The Family Fang,” Kevin Wilson writes about unusual families after having grown up in an unusual family and hoping to raise his son in an unusual way.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Literary Lions, by Their Cubs
The daughters of the literary luminaries Joseph Heller, A. J. Ayer and William Styron have their own tales to tell — about their fathers.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
ArtsBeat Blog: A New York Poem by the New Poet Laureate
Video of Philip Levine, named the new United States poet laureate on Wednesday, reading his poem "Two Voices" at the Library of Congress in 2007.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Children’s Books: Balto to the Rescue
The story of the famous sled dog Balto, who led his team through punishing conditions, saving lives.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Top writers tackle climate change in short stories
Authors from Margaret Atwood to David Mitchell will contribute to Verso collection imagining impact of global warmingNovelists from Margaret Atwood to David Mitchell are hoping to bring the dangers posed by climate change to life, through a new collection of... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Mr Men books mark 40th anniversary
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Popeye cookbook reveals Sailor Man's healthy-eating secrets
Healthy recipes based on Olive Oyl, Bluto, Swee' Pea and Popeye's favourites will arrive in bookshops in OctoberStrong to the finish because he ate his spinach, Popeye the Sailor Man is launching his first cookbook packed with strength-giving, healthy recipes.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Ralph Fiennes to direct story of Charles Dickens affair
Harry Potter star to adapt The Invisible Woman, an account of author's secret relationship with actor Nelly TernanRalph Fiennes is to direct The Invisible Woman, an adaptation of Claire Tomalin's account of the relationship between Charles Dickens and actor Nelly... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Critic’s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites
The work of Philip Levine, the new poet laureate, is a plainspoken poetry ready-made, it seems, for a time of S&P downgrades, a double-dip recession and debts left unpaid.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate
Philip Levine, whose poems capture the industrial heartland, is to be the next United States poet laureate.... More...
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
50 years of war: Adaptable 'Commando' comic still going strong
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Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
Movie Review | 'The Help': ‘The Maids’ Now Have Their Say
“The Help,” Tate Taylor’s movie set in civil-rights-era Mississippi, shifts between black maids and their employers.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
Books of The Times: A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World
Steve Wick’s “Long Night” is a biography of William L. Shirer, war correspondent and author on Nazi Germany.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: What Digital Maps Can Tell Us About the American Way
A new series of digital maps has been created by the Scholars' Lab.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Memoir by Obama's Half-Sister to Be Published in U.S.
The book was released in Germany last fall.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
City Room: From Koch, a Child's Tale of Health and Self-Acceptance
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch and his sister have written a cautionary children's book, "Eddie Shapes Up," a more or less autobiographical account of a youngster who faces down dietary demons to emerge healthy and self-accepting.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
Edinburgh festival book lovers to attempt reading record
Hundreds set to participate in reading relay of Theresa Breslin's Prisoner in Alcatraz, at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, in an attempt to smash the world recordBook lovers at the Edinburgh International Book Festival are hoping to smash the... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: Preventing Groupthink
Is a unanimous decision a sign of a slam dunk or overwhelming groupthink?... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Times Books to Publish Account of British Hacking Scandal
The book will look at the genesis of the scandal and how it unfolded.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show
BookStats, a large survey conducted by two major trade groups, revealed that sales of e-books and juvenile and adult fiction have helped the publishing industry expand.... More...
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
The Pour: A Seasonal Thirst for a Good Read
Four provocative wine books are suitable for the beach, pool or porch.... More...
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Monday, 8 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Andy Cohen of Bravo Plans a Memoir
Henry Holt and Company is expected to announce on Monday that it is publishing Mr. Cohen's first book, about growing up with a love of pop culture and landing a job in the television business.... More...
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Monday, 8 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Constructing a Portrait of Pakistan Through the Stories of Its People
In her book “Playing With Fire” Pamela Constable gives American readers a tour of contemporary Pakistan, a complex, little understood nation of immense importance to the United States.... More...
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Monday, 8 August, 2011
Kurt Vonnegut library offers pupils free copies of banned book
'Decide for yourself,' says director Julia Whitehead, responding to school ban by giving away 150 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five"To hell with the censors!" said Kurt Vonnegut. "Give me knowledge or give me death!" Now the late author's memorial library is acting... More...
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Monday, 8 August, 2011
Media Cache: After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France
Could the Internet giant's deal with Hachette Livre clear a path for a deal to settle longstanding litigation in the United States?... More...
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Monday, 8 August, 2011
Books of The Times: One Man’s Gluddle-Luddle Is Another’s Squoosh Squoosh
In “House of Holes: A Book of Raunch” Nicholson Baker invokes an equal-opportunity playland where anybody can seemingly fulfill any sexual daydream.... More...
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Sunday, 7 August, 2011
Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House
For a second year, the Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore has lost its city funding and may have to close.... More...
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Sunday, 7 August, 2011
William Sleator, Fantasy Writer for Young Adults, Dies at 66
Mr. Sleator, a writer for young adults, worked in a genre that straddled fantasy, science fiction and horror.... More...
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Sunday, 7 August, 2011
Between the Covers: Jay McInerney, Man Booker Prize, publishingperspectives.com, Slightly Foxed
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Sunday, 7 August, 2011
Charles Dickens bicentenary: Call for online editors to save forgotten journal
Three billion words in great author's weekly magazine are giving academics a massive proofreading problemIn 1866 it was, said the Victorian actress Ellen Terry, "the thing that made me homesick for London".... More...
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Saturday, 6 August, 2011
Libraries will rely on volunteers to survive, says report
More and more books will be distributed from shops, churches and village halls, predict local government and library bodiesLibraries will increasingly rely on volunteers and community groups, with more books distributed from shops and village halls, according to a report... More...
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Saturday, 6 August, 2011
Cat that got the cream: book deal for Big Issue seller and his pet
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Saturday, 6 August, 2011
Model sues publisher for spiking 'misery memoir'
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Saturday, 6 August, 2011
TBR: Inside the List
Amor Towles’s “Rules of Civility,” hits the hardcover fiction list at No. 16. Not bad for a first novel by a money manager.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Michael Holroyd's 'Book of Secrets'
In Sunday's Book Review, Toni Bentley reviews the biographer Michael Holroyd's "Book of Secrets;" Brook Wilensky-Lanford discusses the search for the Garden of Eden in her new book, "Paradise Lust," and more.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
A Writer Investigates Madness, His Own and Others’
A depressed writer searches for answers to his problems in the lives of kindred sufferers.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Poetry for Tough Guys
Bruce Smith’s tough-guy poems call attention to the male experience.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Which Way to the Garden of Eden?
A history of the eccentric searchers who have sought the real Garden of Eden, in the Arctic, Chinese Turkestan and rural Ohio.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind
The controversial history of the mathematical theorem that tells us when we should change our minds.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Tracking Somali Pirates to Their Lair
At great personal risk, a Canadian journalist explores the rise of modern piracy.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Horror: The State of Zombie Literature: An Autopsy
Does our 21st-century fascination with these hungry hordes stem from a general anxiety about overwhelming, uncontrollable threats?... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story
A noted biographer retells the love story of Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel in unprecedented depth.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Spider-Man No. 666
The number 666 may fill some people with dread, but for Spider-Man its cause for celebration.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
‘Reservation Road,’ Revisited
John Burnham Schwartz’s new novel returns to the broken families of “Reservation Road.”... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Crime: Grimm Lessons
Mystery novels by Reginald Hill, Will Lavender, Michael Harvey and Judy Clemens.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Too Greedy to Fail
Contributors to the financial collapse of 2008 emerge in Justin Cartwright’s novel.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Our Spy War with China
David Wise assesses the impact of Chinese spying in America.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
A Novel of Jazz, Soul and Civil Rights
In this novel, set in the civil-rights-era South, two aspiring musicians fight to preserve a forbidden friendship.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Up Front: Adam Mansbach
Before he was a novelist, the author of the best-selling “children’s” book “Go the _ to Sleep” once dreamed of becoming a hip-hop star.... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
My Week With Marilyn to premiere at New York film festival
Simon Curtis's film about encounter between Marilyn Monroe and UK assistant film director to screen as festival centrepiece• Should be a contender: the 50 big films vying for Oscar's attentionThe highly-anticipated British film My Week With Marilyn is to receive... More...
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Friday, 5 August, 2011
Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge
The biographer Michael Holroyd’s new book reads like a series of short stories linking the lives of several women around whom more famous men revolve.... More...
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Thursday, 4 August, 2011
Motherlode: "No Biking in the House Without a Helmet"
A new book club book -- and a collection of things you never thought you would EVER say as a parent.... More...
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Thursday, 4 August, 2011
Barbara Cartland stole plots, rival author alleged in furious letters
Correspondence from contemporary Georgette Heyer calls billion-selling author a 'petty thief'Dame Barbara Cartland, whose romantic novels have already sold over a billion copies worldwide, faced furious allegations of plagiarism, previously unpublished letters that were sent in 1950 reveal. The writer... More...
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Thursday, 4 August, 2011
Nicholson Baker: The Mad Scientist of Smut
The novelist lives a quiet life in Maine. But boy, does his mind wander.... More...
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Thursday, 4 August, 2011
Memoir royalties of the 'Aussie Taliban' frozen
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Thursday, 4 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage
Kevin Wilson portrays a married couple, performance artists, who feature their son and daughter in their work, to the detriment of the children, who grow up to be damaged adults.... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: National Endowment Announces Humanities Grants
249 recipients received $40 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Writers' boltholes on the market
JG Ballard, Charles Dickens and JK Rowling have all inhabited properties that were up for grabs - for the right price• For a house completely intertwined with the life and work of a writer, few can match the 1930s semi... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Children’s Books: A Picture Book About Surviving Katrina
A fictional but realistic account of a 10-year-old boy who lives in New Orleans during the great hurricane of 2005 and its aftermath.... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Shawshank Redemption tree split in half by storm
Oak near Mansfield, Ohio, used to shoot scene in which Red finds note from prison friend Andy, 'was rotted in the middle'A tree that played a central role in the denouement of The Shawshank Redemption has been semi-destroyed by a... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By
A day of wandering the semantic landscape of Manhattan with an eye out for everyday words: the language of street signs and menus, MetroCards and T-shirts.... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis to get their teeth into Bait
Taxi Driver writer and American Psycho novelist are to join forces on a new shark horror filmThe history of shark movies is littered with the corpses of failed attempts to recapture the majesty of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, but a new... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Lady Gaga promises to show everything in book
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Tony Parsons seeks out Heathrow's human drama as writer in residence
Novelist commissioned to write a collection of short stories based on people who work at and travel through HeathrowThe first time Tony Parsons took a flight, it was the 1970s and he was a young music journalist travelling to Philadelphia... More...
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Tony Parsons becomes Heathrow airport's new bard of baggage reclaim
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Wednesday, 3 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Shame on Me, and You for Taking Pleasure in It
In his quite good and very bad new book, Wayne Koestenbaum explores the many varieties — and, for him, pleasures — of shame.... More...
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Tuesday, 2 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Spider-Man Spins a New Secret Identity
The Marvel Comics hero, at least as he exists in the Ultimate universe, has a new alter ego: Miles Morales, a teenager who is of black and Hispanic descent, and a rare person of color playing a major role in... More...
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Tuesday, 2 August, 2011
ArtsBeat: Predicting Bubbles and Crashes
Would you invest when media experts speak positively about the stock market? Would you deliberately do the opposite? Post a comment in the space below.... More...
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Tuesday, 2 August, 2011
Peter Pan's Neverland could become forever-land
Joanna Lumley is raising £4m to turn Moat Brae in Dumfries – birthplace of JM Barrie's tale – into a children's literature centreFor the teenaged James Matthew Barrie, the sloping, terraced garden overlooking a gentle river was an enchanted land... More...
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Tuesday, 2 August, 2011
Tony Parsons jets into Heathrow airport as writer-in-residence
The resident author will be scouring the terminals for characters to revive the 'airport fiction' genrePassengers jetting off from Heathrow on their summer holidays this week will be facing more than just delays: if they're not careful, they may also... More...
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Tuesday, 2 August, 2011
Books of The Times: Upheaval and Hope in a Land of Turmoil
“Rock the Casbah,” a new book by Robin Wright, examines the causes and repercussions of the recent Arab Spring and broader trends in the Islamic world.... More...
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Tuesday, 2 August, 2011
First space on Guardian first book award longlist goes to new publisher
Juan Pablo Villalobos's Down the Rabbit Hole selected from readers' nominations for Guardian first book awardMexican-born novelist Juan Pablo Villalobos has booked the first place on the Guardian first book award longlist with his debut novel about Latin American drug... More...
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Monday, 1 August, 2011
DC Comics promises to hire more women after reader backlash
Co-publishers at US company release contrite statement after petition signed by 3,000 bemoans 'appalling, offensive numbers'Reader outrage at the lack of female writers and characters at DC Comics has prompted the publisher to tell fans it is taking their concerns... More...
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Monday, 1 August, 2011
Internet Archive founder turns to new information storage device – the book
Brewster Kahle, the man behind a project to file every webpage, now wants to gather one copy of every published bookTucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an... More...
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Monday, 1 August, 2011
For New Yorker on iPad, Words Are the Thing
With a minimum of bells and whistles and a focus on a readable format, The New Yorker attained iPad sales higher than those of any other iPad edition sold by Condé Nast.... More...
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Monday, 1 August, 2011
