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Words in Pictures: Mourid Barghouti
23 July 2010

The Palestinian poet reads extracts from his work.

Culture
Damien Hirst for culture minister?
22 July 2010

Should the Department for Culture, Media and Sport be hiring more artists?

Music and Performance
Mercury Prize shortlist announced
20 July 2010

Nominees for the top music award include Corinne Bailey Rae, the xx and Dizzee Rascal.

Culture
Iraq’s missing modern art
16 July 2010

Baghdad’s art galleries are struggling to restore their priceless collections.

Books
The five most controversial memoirs
13 July 2010

Setting Peter Mandelson’s “explosive” autobiography in perspective.

Books
Words in Pictures: Philip Larkin
09 July 2010

The poet talks about his work to John Betjeman.

Books
Slavoj Žižek on "the idea of communism"
07 July 2010

The Slovenian philosopher in full effect.

Books
Words in Pictures: Agatha Christie
02 July 2010

The prolific crime writer on her leading hero and heroine.

Books
Barbara Demick wins the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
02 July 2010

The judges commend her account of ordinary lives in North Korea.

Books
In search of Harper Lee
02 July 2010

It's the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill A Mockingbird, but the author is maintaining her silence.

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