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It’s all talk
By Sophie Elmhirst - 09 May 18:12

Skip the corporate literary festivals and root out the gems, says Sophie Elmhirst.

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Review: The Plantagenets - the Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones
By Ben Wilson - 09 May 16:10
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Review: Occupy by Noam Chomsky
By George Eaton - 09 May 15:48

An unlikely moderate.

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Review: This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folksong by Robert Santelli
By Liz Thomson - 09 May 15:28
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Review: The Arab Awakening - Islam and the New Middle East by Tariq Ramadan
By Robert Irwin - 09 May 15:03
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Review: Skios by Michael Frayn
By Leo Robson - 09 May 14:44
The Books Interview — Ferdinand Mount
By Jonathan Derbyshire - 09 May 14:02

The Thatcher policy honcho and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement talks about unequal societies, free markets and German models.

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Review: What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel
By John Gray - 09 May 13:58

Treating everything as a commodity ruins the moral fabric of society.

Hilary Mantel
Reviews Round-Up
By - 08 May 17:29

The critics' verdicts on Hilary Mantel, Tom Watson and Toni Morrison.

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Review: Dial M for Murdoch by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
By Neville Thurlbeck - 03 May 12:09

Tom Watson’s lonely quest for the truth about hacking.

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Review: The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
By Talitha Stevenson - 03 May 11:27
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Review: Seven Years by Peter Stamm
By Leo Robson - 03 May 10:59
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Review: Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike by William Fotheringham
By Henry Sheen - 03 May 10:48
The world that America built
The world that America built
By Mark Leonard - 02 May 11:48

Three new books by major commentators ask what a planet without US leadership would look like.

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The NS Interview: Jung Chang, author
By Sophie Elmhirst - 02 May 11:05

“Mao was a bad man, but he was a very good subject”

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Peter Carey
Interview: Peter Carey
By Nina Caplan - 26 April 12:47

Carey discusses bad-boy characters and Australian identity.

"It Has Rained All Week"
By Antony Dunn - 26 April 12:30
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Review: Pantheon by Sam Bourne
By Jonathan Derbyshire - 26 April 12:25
Review: Seasons in the Sun by Dominic Sandbrook
By Vernon Bogdanor - 26 April 11:06
Review: In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland
By Ziauddin Sardar - 25 April 17:59
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Review: Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum
By Isabel Hilton - 25 April 17:23
Review: Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
By Leo Robson - 25 April 17:12
Review: The Sex Myth by Brooke Magnanti
By Helen Lewis - 25 April 17:00
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Michael Frayn
The Books Interview: Michael Frayn
By Jonathan Derbyshire - 25 April 16:48

"I don’t think I shall ever write anything again."

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Review: The New Few by Ferdinand Mount
By John Gray - 25 April 16:34

Why Britain tolerates the rule of the super-rich.

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The year that roared
By Sarah Churchwell - 25 April 16:17

The modern world, and modern literature, came of age in 1922.

Kidnapped by affluence
By Jonathan Derbyshire - 19 April 12:21

Michael Harrington’s war on poverty, 50 years on.

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Review: The Lifespan of a Fact by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
By Olivia Laing - 19 April 12:04
"Heronkind"
By Julia Copus - 19 April 11:59
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Interview: Jonathan Safran Foer
By Sophie Elmhirst - 18 April 17:47

The family man of US fiction.

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