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Can you radicalise young children in a few easy reads? Viv Groskop gives it her best shot It all started with my son, Will, stamping his feet and saying he didn't want any girls invited to his sixth birthday party. Girls, he declared, are boring. At the same time I noticed my daughter, Vera, ...
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The winner of the Guardian First Book award on finding comedy in tragedy – and why she is not the voice of Zimbabwe The early press material for An Elegy for Easterly, the collection of short stories that this week won the Guardian First Book award , called Petina Gappah "the voice of ...
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Guardian First Book Award
It took a millennium for western civilisation to create a canon of classical literature – but just 10 years for Hollywood to destroy it When I think back on this decade's spate of movies based on the great legends of European history, I remember how fantastically it started – with Gladiator – ...
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Mall of America in Minneapolis said 'English-only' rule was 'internal miscommunication' She is no longer chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called "governor". And in English only, please. That was the message from officials at the Mall of America shopping mall, who told ...
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Politics
In a very strong year, my choices would include Murakami and Mantel along with Doctorow and Didion. How about you? Halfway through the decade already, and we're all a little older, wiser and in my case more gainfully employed though curiously lighter-of-pocket (damn you, student loans) than we ...
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In Mapping New York, the history of the city, its streets, services and social workings, is traced through the maps that have been made of it. Take a look at some of the most revealing and fascinating specimens here
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Vintage, £7.99 Sick Boy wis tremblin. Ah wis tryin no tae notis the cunt. He wis bringin me doon. - Rents. Ah goat tae score. - Aw, ah sais. Ah wanted the radge to fuck off soas ah cid watch ma Jean-Claude Van Damme vidjo. \ - Youse a cunt, he snaps, bustin me ...
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Irvine Welsh
The fuss over Spike Jonze's film forgets that there was an even more ambitious version of the children's book - an opera All the fuss over Spike Jonze's film version of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are overlooks that there was a previous, and in a way, even more ambitious adaptation ...
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Tom Clancy
This week's edition, hosted by Xan Brooks, hops from talking film and theatre with actor Claire Danes, to discussing the politics of post-apartheid South Africa with the director of Disgrace , to reviewing Steven Soderbergh's portrait of a high-class hooker, The Girlfriend Experience . First ...
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Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
The Guardian first book award ceremony was held last night in Kings Place, and publishers, authors and readers from all over the country gathered to hear judges Martha Kearney, Nadeem Aslam and Tobias Hill summarise the shortlisted books, and the Guardian's editor, Alan Rusbridger announce the ...
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Guardian First Book Award
Listen to Adam read his contribution to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas , edited by Ariane Sherine . The book is out now in print, audio and on iTunes. The contributors and editor have donated their full share of the profits to the Terrence Higgins Trust Adam Rutherford
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Powers's depictions of frustrated priests have a subtle humanity that the most secular reader can appreciate It's embarrassing to tell, but idle daydreaming while working as a bookseller led me to JF Powers . Shelving in the Ps one morning, I wondered whom I'd nestle alongside when I was a ...
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Director Paul Greengrass has pulled out of the next Bourne movie. Will star Matt Damon follow? Age: 39. Appearance: For the moment, he looks exactly like the actor Matt Damon. What a tremendous coincidence. Not really. Damon has played the fictional former CIA assassin, the main character ...
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Paul Auster
The Bourne Ultimatum
Trade lawyer impresses critics and readers alike with 'disarmingly funny' short stories of Zimbabwe A Geneva-based international trade lawyer whose poignant, humane and funny collection of stories about her home country, Zimbabwe, has impressed critics was tonight named winner of the Guardian ...
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Guardian First Book Award
Scott McLemee is one of my country's greatest literary critics. You've got to read this paint-peeler of a job he did on Cornel West's new book. It's just fantastic. A little taste: If sketchy in other regards, Brother West is never anything but expansive on how Cornel West feels about Cornel ...
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Birmingham Rep "Cold outside?" inquires Bob Cratchit of Scrooge's nephew, Fred, as he leaves his uncle's offices having failed to invoke the spirit of Christmas in the miserly old man. "Cold in," comes the reply, setting the tone for Bryony Lavery's new adaptation, in which the ghosts of ...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Author of the prize-winning fantasy novel Mythago Wood Robert Holdstock, who has died of an E coli infection aged 61, was the author of Mythago Wood (1984), one of the defining fantasy novels of the last 50 years. He wrote dozens of books – in the late 1970s and early 80s, he published ...
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Robert Jordan
Cornel West's new memoir, says Scott McLemee, is " like a celebrity profile... in which reporter and superstar have somehow fused into a single first-person voice ". And that's not the line that will really smart, either. • Covers from Harlequin – that's Amercian for Mills & Boon – are being ...
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Harlequin
The Ghost
Particularly when wielded by those who don't really understand it, it's an insultingly cheap bid to get down with the kids I was talking to the journalist Lindsay Johns the other day when a look of pain came across his face. "Have you come across this street slang Julius Caesar ?" he asked. I ...
