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NS Profile - Ian McEwan

Terror and the UK - He is the closest thing we have to a "national novelist": one who can speak to and for the nation at times of crisis. Ian McEwan profiled

NS man of the year - Dan Brown

The author of the bestselling Da Vinci Code has tapped into our post-9/11 anxieties and fear of fundamentalism

NS Profile - The white South African novelist

Despite a Booker nomination and a Nobel Prize, these writers, unheard in their own land, feel oppressed by emptiness. The white South African novelist profiled by Jason Cowley

Interviews
The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

The philosopher discusses his new book A Week At the Airport

Film

Stephen Poliakoff

Dawn of the dead

Radio

Joan Armatrading

Armatrading for Mayor

Berlin

East Side Gallery

Cold war modern

Books

Condition of England

The Condition of England

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

Biography

John Cheever

Cheever: a Life

Books

Roy Hattersley

In Search of England

Theatre

Pains of Youth

Pains of Youth / Days of Significance

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