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The bold-faced world of Vanity Fair’s Tina Brown

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On the day that Conde Nast announced the new editor of their treasure, Vanity Fair, a former editor, Tina Brown,...

Nearly Christmas: Time for the book lists!

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With new releases from literary giants such as Arundhati Roy and Paula Hawkins, as well as much-hyped debuts from a...

The beauty factor: Is this Darwin’s most seditious idea?

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For readers, Charles Darwin, born in 1809, apparently never gets old. Books by Darwin number 25. Books about Darwin, according...

In Patagonia forty years on… the myth of Bruce Chatwin survives

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Forty years after the publication of his groundbreaking travelogue, In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin’s writing — and style — have lost...

It’s a yoouge summer reading list: Best start now

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Here’s a huge list of TED speaker-recommended books for summer reading, with all the diversity of titles and topics you...

The (nearly) unbearable price of success for Arundhati Roy

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Being an activist/artist is trickier than it sounds, as India's Booker Prize-winning darling Arundhati Roy has discovered. Twenty years after The...

Change at NYT Books: Novelists sigh with relief

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Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times chief book reviewer and Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been, by a wide margin,...

This sexagenarian romp is a comic thriller

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The Last Laugh, by Lynn Freed, reviewed by Valerie Miner for The San Francisco Chronicle. The Last Laugh is a sexagenarian...