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Review: The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
04 April 2012

Why writers have little use for literary theory

Books
The harsh taste of apricots
31 October 2011

The publication of Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reminds us sharply that his sympathies always lay with powerless people who wanted to change the world for the better.

International Politics
Strange to say, but Washington’s war on terror has bolstered liberalism
05 September 2011

George W Bush’s intention after the 9/11 attacks was to strengthen America’s regressive patriotic resolve. But so linked was he to the US military response that his actions only helped boost liberalism — of both the reactionary and most noble kinds.

Books
Open City
08 August 2011

Teju Cole’s debut novel is a fine account of an elusive Nigerian flâneur’s encounters with friends, strangers and ghosts in New York as it struggles to recover from the World Trade Center attacks.

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