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Interview: A long walk to freedom Alice Walker's new book tells the true story of her marriage - an odyssey of love and pain that mirrored America's journey to racial equality. It's a giddy, powerful tale that may well, she says, be her last...
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Still angry after all these years If there's controversy, hatred and conflict, you can be sure of one thing - John Pilger will be there
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News
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TV chef wins author of the year at 'Nibbies' 23 February: Nigella Lawson was named author of the year last night at the British Book Awards or 'Nibbies'. |
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HarperCollins launches ebook imprint 23 February: Last year's Nobel laureate is spearheading HarperCollins' big push into e-publishing. |
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The Loafer's literary gossip Forget the book, bring on the bookube - "a book turned into an exciting multi-faceted plastic cube". Hmm. |
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Fiction
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Never trust a man in platform heels Hanif Kureishi returns to his sunny side with his new novel, Gabriel's Gift |
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School's out The happiest days of our life prove to be Jonathan Coe's undoing in The Rotters' Club |
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Interview: Jonathan Coe He is as grave as you'd expect a funny writer to be |
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Why men can't write for toffee Are there gender differences in writing? Ferdinand Mount thinks so, and he prefers women |
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Also new this week David Lodge profiled, Emily Barton's stunning debut, the horrific but brilliant Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, and on the literary trail of Maine's most famous resident writer, Stephen King |
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Competition
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World Book Day competition Win £100 to spend at Waterstone's |
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Biography
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Sexual intercourse began in 1863... Ian Gibson illustrates with great humour the relationship between capitalism and perversion in his biography of Henry Spencer Ashbee, The Erotomaniac |
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Was HG Wells a plagiarist? The Spinster and the Prophet makes a compelling thesis |
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Also new this week Phillip Horne explains how he came to edit Henry James's letters, and Kitchener is revealed as a big man with big faults |
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Arts
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Art attacks Michael Kustow investigates the history of Jewish iconoclasm in Idolizing Pictures by Anthony Julius |
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Unjust deserts Geoff Dyer examines the art of snapping the sands in The Desert |
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History
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Strife on the ocean wave Geoffrey Penn's account of squabbles at the top of the Royal Navy, Infighting Admirals, tells us as much about Edwardian England as it does about the coming of steel and steam |
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We're in the money Books about money are two a penny, but Niall Ferguson has a broader aim in mind in The Cash Nexus |
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Freedom fighters Andrew Pulver on Zionist passion in The Avengers by Rich Cohen |
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Politics, philosophy and society
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Don't judge a book by its back cover In the fine art of causing maximum offence to most people, few surpass Christopher Hitchens. His collection of essays, Unacknowledged Legislation, shows him to be a first-rate hater |
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