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Blood meridian
Oct 20th 2005


A new history exposes Russia's wartime agony from the bottom up ... more E+

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Books:

Michael Craig's New Book Tells All About the Biggest Poker Game in Vegas History: A book review
(Card Player) Wed 20:09 GMT

Book Review: Computer Security- 20 Things Every Employee Should Know (2nd Edition)
(About) Wed 18:29 GMT

Book Review: Waterloo
(International Herald Tribune) Wed 15:12 GMT

The art of falling apart
(Telegraph) Wed 03:52 GMT

Claire Harman
(Telegraph) Wed 03:52 GMT

Arts and culture:

Cuban choir members hit high note for freedom
(Globe and Mail) Wed 21:28 GMT

Artist Scott Mcdaniel Extends His Exclusive Agreement With
(ComiX-Fan) Wed 20:59 GMT

Art Exhibit to Feature Works of O'Donnell, Brooks, Burnett and More
(Playbill) Wed 20:34 GMT

August Wilson's Final Interview Featured in November American Theatre
(Playbill) Wed 20:32 GMT


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The Mitrokhin archive E+
The storyteller is perhaps more fascinating than the story
Oct 20th 2005

Weapons inspection in Iraq E+
Bitter Mr Ritter
Oct 20th 2005

Doctorow on Sherman E+
E.L. Doctorow follows Sherman on his bloody march through the American civil war
Oct 20th 2005

The battle of Agincourt E+
Meticulous detail from the frontlines on the Somme, 600 years later
Oct 20th 2005

Deepa Mehta's “Water”
An Indian film stars at the world's biggest festival of Asian film
Oct 20th 2005

What went wrong in Iraq
A once-hopeful reporter turns to painful questions about the war
Oct 13th 2005

Robert Fisk on the Middle East
The most storied reporter in the region offers an acid history of Western powers
Oct 13th 2005

Managing “knowledge workers”
Resurrecting assembly-line ambitions for the service economy
Oct 13th 2005

The Man Booker prizewinner
An Irish champion surprises with its feats of language
Oct 13th 2005

Laurence Olivier
The biographer inherits his toughest critics
Oct 13th 2005

Dumb blondes no more
Hollywood's women are triumphing on-screen this autumn
Oct 13th 2005

Partisan political books from America
As America becomes more polarised, its political writing is getting worse
Oct 6th 2005

Foreign policy and the courts
Too level-headed a treatise, from an advocate for unlimited powers
Oct 6th 2005

Fascism in Italy
It wasn't just Mussolini
Oct 6th 2005

Lessons of seduction
Lonely plight of the pick-up artist
Oct 6th 2005

Contract bridge
Of hearts and cards
Oct 6th 2005

Edvard Munch
The artist through his own eyes
Oct 6th 2005

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time
A retrospective of work by Hiroshi Sugimoto, a Japanese photographer and artist
TOKYO, until January 9th, 2006

Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec
This exhibit explores the interplay of artistic ideas between British and French painters at the end of the 19th century
LONDON, until January 15th, 2006

Big Bang: Creation and Destruction in 20th Century Art
The Pompidou Centre presents a wide range of modern art in this high-minded exhibition
PARIS, until February 27th, 2006

Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
The show's focus is new, surprising discoveries. For example: dinosaur ferocity may have just been show for the ladies
NEW YORK, until January 8th, 2006


Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures
An exhibition of Andy Warhol's lesser-known film portraits from the early 1960s
BUENOS AIRES, until November 21st, 2005


An Assortment of Beauties: Japanese Woodblock Prints Collected by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America's finest architects, was also a great collector of Japanese art
LOS ANGELES, until January 9th, 2006


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