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2 Sep 2014:UK's premier non-fiction award includes six contenders in the first-person genre among this year's finalists
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16 Aug 2014:
Phyllis Rose, who tackled the entire contents of one shelf in a New York library, tells Rachel Cooke what the 'extreme reading' experiment taught her
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18 Jul 2014:
If you're uneasy about holiday idleness, this very strange, sort-of study of DH Lawrence is a very good companion
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1 Jul 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: No ordinary work of lit crit, it's also about life, inspiring James Joyce to go to Paris and Ezra Pound to called Symons a god
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16 Jun 2014: Author Tim Parks argues that our technology-shredded attention spans have definitively doomed the novel, but many other writers, from John Banville to Francesca Segal, disagree, writes Alison Flood
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16 Jun 2014:
South African-born writer, novelist and critic who became a professor at University College London
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7 Jun 2014:
Robert Silvers has been editor of the New York Review of Books since 1963. He tells Rachel Cooke how his magazine came to be the subject of a new Scorsese documentary
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10 May 2014:
One of our best-loved writers scored a goal for the other side last week. Here Harry Mount and Philip Hensher debate the relative merits of British and American literature
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25 Apr 2014:
Sebastian Barry reads from his new book The Temporary Gentleman and talks family history; John Carey reflects on a life in literature going all the way back to Biggles
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19 Apr 2014:
What can a writer's life really tell us about his novels, asks Leo Robson
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11 Apr 2014:
Seven years after the death of Kurt Vonnegut, students at Hove Park School have responded to an inspirational letter he wrote in 2006 with a film celebrating his advice to make art for its own sake and to 'make your soul grow'
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4 Apr 2014:
An experienced screenwriter and producer takes a scalpel to narrative structure an untangles the roots of storytelling. By Victoria Segal
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30 Mar 2014:
Oxford don John Carey's trawl through his back pages is at its best when least professorial, writes Ben East
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23 Mar 2014:
Vikram Chandra's exploration of grammar, logic gates and coding is a refreshing tribute to text, writes Nicola Davis
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20 Mar 2014:
Claire Armitstead: Reviewers have been carefully eliding Karen Joy Fowler's latest plot, but she doesn't seem to care and nor, apparently, do we
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