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The value of a quiet voice

For so long the poor relation of English letters, the short story finally came of age in the fiction of V S Pritchett.

By William Trevor

The Detour

Gerbrand Bakker

The Revelations

Alex Preston

Salman’s trouble in India

The Books Interview: Jodi Kantor

The Books Interview: Jodi Kantor

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The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

Jenny Hartley (editor)

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The eye of the beholder

The eye of the beholder

A coffee-table book for aesthetes: every painting referred to in Marcel Proust's epic In Search of Lost Time, in a single volume. It reveals the novelist's acute sensitivity to art

Totalitarian recall

Totalitarian recall

Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State Steven Heller Phaidon, 240pp, £45

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The American scene - Blowing in the wind

John Sutherland on the flatulent pooch captivating the nation's children

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

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