Sunday, September 29, 2013

Why 2013 Will Be The Year Of The Woman Writer

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . There are still some months to go before the end of the year, but one thing seems certain: wh...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Margaret Atwood's Brave New World

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express Browse through Flipboard, the tablet and mobile-based social media aggregator, and you’...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Best In The English-speaking World

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Announcing the rule change that would make American novelists, among others, eligible for the Man ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Agatha Christie In Syria

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . “In a few weeks’ time, we are starting for Syria!” That may seem like the optimistic assertion of ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Still In Search Of Salinger

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Even if you aren’t a Salinger fan, you’ve probably heard the news that more of his books are li...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Against Loose, Baggy Monsters

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . One of the books on my tottering unread pile is Shamsher Rahman Faruqi’s The Mirror of B...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Making Family Skeletons Dance

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Families have always furnished fodder for fiction. From Tolstoy to Austen to Franzen, novels ...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fiction To Frighten The Status Quo

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My Sunday Guardian column . One of the more credible stories of how the Egyptian capital got its name comes from the order of the 10th ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Literary Prizes, Literary Envy

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . “The book of my enemy has been remaindered,” Clive James once wrote, going on to end his ditt...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Writers And Alcohol

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This week's Sunday Guardian column Ted Hughes once wrote that the progress of any writer was marked by “those moments when he mana...