Attracted by his breadth of interests, Columbia University has appointed Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, as its first Columbia...

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Tony Blair's spin doctor Alastair Campbell has just won an unexpected literary accolade. His memoir The Blair Years which sold 55,000 copies and which his publishers describe as:....

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Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain is reviewed on the Guardian blog by Sam Jordison who compares the writing first of all to Conrad, and then says:... a more accurate compar...

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When a widowed American journalist goes to Beijing to profile an up-and-coming chef, sparks fly.

Denis Johnson’s new novel is a massive thing and something like a masterpiece; it’s the product of an extraordinary writer in full...

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A biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, from a conservative journalist who had unusual access.

Almost eighty years after their execution, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti still manage to rouse a passionate response when it...

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"Aiming at inculcating and encouraging the reading habit, especially among children and youth, the fair simultaneously offers an enormous...

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"Paradise, purgatory, and hell (frozen over) make a dramatic appearance in a major new exhibition, ‘Dante Rediscovered: From Blake...

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"Now, Kerouac's original 120-foot-long typescript scroll for the book is on tour, having sold at auction in 2001 for $2.4 million....

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