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?Fredrik Sjöberg on the art and joy of collecting hoverflies 2019-07-21 12:00:00
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From Shakespeare to The Lion King, Julie Taymor brings magic and drama to classic stories 2019-07-14 12:00:00
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee 2019-07-07 12:00:00
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John le Carré on his legacy as a spy-turned-novelist 2019-06-30 12:00:00
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Aleksandar Hemon on how his parents fled the Siege of Sarajevo and started a new life in Canada 2019-06-23 12:00:00
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Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse 2019-06-16 12:00:00
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Michelle de Kretser probes the human heart with insight and wit in The Life to Come 2019-06-09 12:00:00
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100 years after the Treaty of Versailles, Niall Ferguson and Margaret MacMillan on the lasting impact of WWI 2019-06-02 12:00:00
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From The Shipping News to Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx on the importance of place in her fiction 2019-05-26 12:00:00
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Doris Lessing on how her childhood in Zimbabwe shaped her visionary fiction 2019-05-19 12:00:00
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Imani Perry on the remarkable life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun 2019-05-12 12:00:00
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Whit Stillman on Jane Austen's diabolical, amoral and utterly charming Lady Susan 2019-05-05 12:00:00
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Widely-acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney offers a sharp and witty take on love, sex, class and politics 2019-04-28 12:00:00
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Looking back at the extraordinary Simone de Beauvoir on the 70th anniversary of The Second Sex 2019-04-21 12:00:00
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How the true story of the 'American Taliban' led to John Wray's new novel, Godsend 2019-04-14 12:00:00
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How the true story of the 'American Taliban' led to John Wray's new novel, Godsend
In his fifth novel, the award-winning writer explores identity, rebellion and radicalism through the eyes of a teenage woman. Wray talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the 'pure and dangerous' age of adolescence.…read more
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William Atkins on the beauty, myths and harsh realities of desert life 2019-04-07 12:00:00
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Aatish Taseer on religion, caste and power in modern India 2019-03-31 12:00:00
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How John Grisham turned his passion for justice into bestselling legal thrillers 2019-03-24 12:00:00
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To mark St. Patrick's Day, a conversation with Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney 2019-03-17 12:00:00
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Nora Krug asks tough questions about her German family's wartime past 2019-03-08 12:00:00
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