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A shocking exposé of Poland's most feted journalist seeks more to understand than to condemnThe tale of Lulu, Haile Selassie's lap dog that was allowed to piss on the shoes of dignitaries, and the courtier whose job for 10 years was to wipe those shoes clean...(more)
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There is no such thing as one-for-one equivalence in translation, as the veteran translator David Bellos knows better than most. In Edinburgh to introduce his book Is That a Fish in Your Ear, he joins Charlotte Higgins along with James Geary to muse on the particular...(more)
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The hypothetical Cosmo girl is sexy, elegant, ambitious, and – perhaps most importantly – solvent. It makes for a confusing message these days"Nobody likes a poor girl," wrote Helen Gurley Brown in the 1962 classic Sex and the Single Girl. "She is just a drag. It does...(more)
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Jonathan Tropper’s sixth novel is about Drew Silver, a divorced part-time drummer in an over-the-hill rock band, supporting himself partly by selling specimens to a sperm bank.
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Joyce Carol Oates on violence, video games and sins of omission.
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The book, by David Barton, was recently named the "least credible history book in print."
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Robert Provine, who has studied the physiology of laughing, yawning, tickling and other behaviors, celebrates small science, which he calls “sidewalk neuroscience.”
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Generous, irreverent, politically incorrect, erudite, clear-sighted and very funny, with an irrepressible appetite for the good things in life, Robert Hughes was also sensitive, sometimes vulnerable and always brutally honest about everything, including himself.Bob cheated death 13 years ago when he had a head-on collision on...(more)
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In “The Way the World Works,” a collection of essays from the last 15 years, Nicholson Baker caroms among topics as diverse as video games and World War II pacifism.
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Essex-raised Maajid Nawaz tells Edinburgh international book festival of his transformation from radical to rights activistA former recruiter for an extreme Islamist organisation has described how he has diverted his "transferable skills" of "organising, propagandising and preaching" to persuading the young people of Pakistan of the...(more)
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What role should art play in conflict? Hermione Lee acclaims Pat Barker's unflinching explorationThe title of Pat Barker's new novel echoes Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, her 1922 novel in memory of her brother Thoby, who died young, written in the aftermath of the war in which so...(more)
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The author of “Grand Pursuit” and “A Beautiful Mind” likes Victorian novelists for their deliciously wicked humor and the Russians for their political and philosophical musings.
