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Meghan Cox Gurdon reviews "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose. (Read More)
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John Gross reviews Ben Yagoda's exploration of how we got from "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" to an age when everybody and Madonna's brother think their lives merit an autobiography. (Read More)
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Diane Scharper reviews "The Best American Short Stories 2009," a collection edited by Alice Sebold and featuring work by Joseph Epstein, Annie Proulx and Alex Rose. (Read More)
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As the federal government readies the third iteration of Einstein, privacy concerns over the intrusion detection system were voiced at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.Philip Reitinger, Department of Homeland Security deputy under (Read More)
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On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no no (Read More)
The Guardian:
Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a p (Read More)
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While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skil (Read More)
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Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostessGertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due t (Read More)
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This fast-paced thriller has a compassionate heart, says Josh LaceyThere is an obvious pun in the title of Daniel Finn's new novel. (He has written other books as Will Gatti, but this is his first to be published under this n (Read More)
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Van Gogh's letters provide an extraordinary map of the artist's interior worldMichelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable's correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying degre (Read More)
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Clare Clark on a tangled family webMaya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental film-ma (Read More)
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Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, (Read More)
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Giles Foden is carried along by a holistic view of the salmon's lifecycleWhen Richard Shelton's first book The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge was published in 2004 it was acclaimed by Telegraph and Guardian readers (Read More)
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (Read More)
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The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not (Read More)
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The culmination of a triumph of storytellingYour Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewellby Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 560pp, Chatto & Windus, £18.99Part two of Javier Marías's metaphysical epic, (Read More)
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Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
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