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The serial killer of Kittur

The serial killer of Kittur

Exclusive publication of a short story by the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger

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Wreckage

Illustration by Joanna Szachowska-Tarkowska

Rise of the new Anglo-world order

It's an old controversy that was reignited this autumn by the remarks of a Nobel Prize judge: is American literature too insular, preoccupied only with the home country? If so, what else should we be reading in the age of globalisation?

Books of the Year 2008

Selected by Ian Irvine, NS books editor

On a sea of stories

The stories of The Arabian Nights are so famous that most of us have never read them, but just absorbed them as nursery tales or cartoons. Now a new translation, the first in more than a century, allows us to enjoy the vast original

Persistent empire

The Liberal Defence of Murder
Richard Seymour
Verso, 358pp, £16.99

At the crossroads

A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits
Carol K Mack and Dinah Mack
Profile Books, 288pp, £10.99

Lunchtime notes

The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics - Off the Record
Edited by Ion Trewin
Allen Lane, 834pp, £30

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