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Ideas
Meditation rescued me from misanthropy
05 July 2010

Religion is an easy target for atheists, but, as Tim Parks discovered, there’s no escaping that ther

International Politics
Special Report - Sin and be happy
03 April 2006

As Italians prepare to go to the polls, the author Tim Parks identifies a ritualistic sparring that

Books
Forgotten favourites - Enchanted Isle. Tim Parks delights in a story of Mediterranean boyhood that tackles the debates of the postwar period, while seeming to exist outside history
01 December 2003

Arturo's Island

Elsa Morante Translated by Isabel Quigley Steerforth Press, 368pp, £1

Ideas
The altar of fire
16 June 2003

In a world without faith or metaphysics, we need a grand illusion like the European Union. Even with

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