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  • EYES ON THE PRIZE

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    “Wolf Hall”, by Hilary Mantel, didn’t just win the Man Booker prize last year: it became the fastest-selling Booker winner ever. But behind her triumph, as she reveals in this memoir, lay a complicated relationship with awards ...  read more »


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  • NOTES ON A VOICE: GRAHAM GREENE

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    In the second instalment of our series on what makes distinctive writers distinctive, Nicholas Shakespeare tackles Graham Greene ...  read more »


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    • summer 2010
  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

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    The Economist's former Lexington columnist on books about America's harsh criminal-justice system ...
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  • REPASTS: BLANC MANGER

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    In his latest Repasts column, which considers meals found in books, Jon Fasman writes of blancmange, a dessert Chaucer associated with his cook's weeping ulcer ...  read more »


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  • AN EVENING OF SLOW THEATRE

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    Rapturous applause recently greeted a nine-hour marathon of Dostoyevsky on stage. James C. Taylor wonders: why not just read the book?
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  • REINVENTING THE LIBRARY

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    Francine Houben built a spectacular library for Delft. Now she has a bigger challenge: Birmingham. Robert Butler meets her ...  read more »


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    • summer 2010
  • REMEMBERING DAVID MARKSON

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    One of America's great experimental writers died on June 4th in New York City, aged 82. Catherine Corman considers his legacy ...  read more »


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  • BOOK CHOICE: SUMMER READING

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    Maggie Fergusson, secretary of the Royal Society of Literature, chooses the books of the season, from a life of Pearl Buck to a love from William Trevor ...  read more »


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    • summer 2010
  • THE LAST MRS MAILER

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    "I always said I wasn’t going to write about Norman because no one would believe it," Norris Church Mailer has said. "But when you go to bed after you’ve lost your husband, you start thinking about the life together, and it just poured out..."  read more »


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  • A RIVER RUNS THROUGH HIM

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    Mark Twain’s life, as well as his stories, revolved around the Mississippi. Laura Barton follows the river across ten states to see it through his eyes ...  read more »


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