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Inheritance
guardian.co.uk Politics:
With the Tory lead down to six points, Cameron must prepare for a close-run raceIN POLITICS, as in war, an element of surprise is vital. It is not an advantage Gordon Brown is likely to seize. He has a record of missing oppor (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
A Tory landslide seemed inevitable at the next general election. But recent soundings show a different trend as Labour benefits from optimism about the economyAlastair Campbell is not normally one to trash the state of the na (Read More)
New York Times:
Congress and the president should forge a compromise on the estate tax that would protect the family farmer and business owner, but impose appropriate taxes on the wealthy. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Readers' responses to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiKiran Desai was not the first novelist who has come to speak to the Guardian book club and confessed to having second thoughts about the ending of her novel. Several (Read More)
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Kiran Desai talks to John Mullan about the writing process for The Inheritance Of LossJohn Mullan
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Kiran Desai talks to John Mullan about the writing process for The Inheritance Of LossJohn Mullan
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www.guardian.co.uk:
In the week that Penguin opened the vaults on one of the most tantalising of all literary legacies, Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel The Original of Laura, we discuss the decision to disobey the author's wish that it be de (Read More)
The Guardian:
News of increasing wealth of country's richest sparks debate about polarisation of societyIn India, the rich just got richer. Despite one of the worst global recessions in history, the number of billionaires in the subcontine (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Our new primary school curriculum trusts teachers' professional judgment, as we move towards a consensus on educationOver the past six months of being schools minister, I've had the pleasure of getting back into schools, meet (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Labour hope new cash will stop young jobless hitting 1m ahead of electionFear of youth unemployment rising above 1 million in the new year prompted Gordon Brown to use the last Queen's speech of the parliament to promise more (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Queen's speech: Tory leader attacks Gordon Brown over absence of bills on immigration, the NHS and MPs' expensesDavid Cameron, the Conservative leader, today accused Gordon Brown of "monumental failures" in government and beh (Read More)
5 days ago
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Brown's political obituary is written. The new PM waits in the wings. But – don't laugh – some see cracks in that crystal ballDon't laugh, but it's possible that the Tories won't win the next general election. Sounds silly, I (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
More than 1,000 people have travelled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world's first assisted suicide clinic?Ludwig Minelli is explaining the best techniques for an efficient suicide wh (Read More)
The Guardian:
Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet setRosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Doctor Who draws 9.1 million viewers and I'm A Celebrity 9.8 million, while The X Factor draws second best ever audienceMore than 9 million viewers saw the return of Doctor Who on BBC1, while nearly 10 million people saw the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Nobel prizewinning physicist who pioneered the Soviet hydrogen bomb and discovered superconductivityVitaly Ginzburg, who has died aged 93, was a Nobel prizewinning Russian physicist and a father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. H (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
>>A serious actor Michael Stuhlbarg is being talked of for Oscar nominations following his impressive performance as Larry Gopnik in the Coen brothers' latest comedy A Serious Man. Stuhlbarg is a little-known actor, despite a (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Esther's lost love Lajos returns, 20 years after marrying her now dead sister. No sooner is he out of his flashy car than he's fleecing family and friends. Essentially a reworking of a classic plotline – woman falls for a sco (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The byelection doesn't alter the polls. Victory is impossible under Brown. MPs must act or leave us with the ConservativesLabour this week was like an airliner hitting an air pocket, a plunge then miraculously stabilising. Ho (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The demonic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian inspired David Vann when he was writing his acclaimed collection of stories set in the Alaskan wildernessI first read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian in foul-weather (Read More)
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