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Ignore the critics. Paul Auster’s new novel lives up to his reputation n mini kapoorSunday 29 June '08
Fareed Zakaria is feisty and immensely readable as he surveys the rise of the rest of the worldThursday
12 October '06What’s the symbolism behind Desai’s Booker? Happily, may be none at allSunday
8 October '06A warning runs through David Shenk’s slim history of chess. “Think of a virus,” he writes, “so advanced, it infects not the blood but the thoughts of its human host.”Sunday
1 October '06How a group of mathematicians got a collective identity and changed their discipline foreverSaturday
30 September '06John Ralston Saul’s immensely popular books are in persistent battle against today’s slide towards technocracy.Friday
29 September '06Adrian Zackheim showed up for a new publishing assignment on September 7, 2001 at Penguin USA’s New York office.Saturday
16 September '06Kiran Desai’s inclusion on the Booker shortlist comes as a mild surprise. But it is wholly deservedSunday
10 September '06Cicero is an unlikely but spectacularly fascinating subject for this chilling thrillerSunday
3 September '06This New York novel has won part-Algerian Claire Messud early booking on literary longlists. Deservedly so. It is the finest comedy of manners to have come out of any city for a very long timeThursday
31 August '06Mahfouz was Egypt’s interpreter of changeThursday
10 August '06Dean Jones’s ‘slip’ reveals the increasing gap between those playing the game and those pulling the stringsMonday
7 August '06Conservative estimates put the civilian death toll of the current fighting in Sri Lanka at more than 40 and the Red Cross warned late last week that more than 22,000 people had already been displaced from their homes in MutturSunday
6 August '06Cinema and sociology fuse in Vikram Chandra’s thriller about the city’s cops and robbersSunday
6 August '06On a hectic dash around Sri Lanka, with its majestic dagobas of Anuradhapura and calming caves of Dambulla, watch how every so often the clock strikes stillThursday
27 July '06It's not necessarily something he bargained for, but Makhaya Ntini must play his cricket in constant pursuit of ever-newer points to prove.Saturday
22 July '06 Graeme Smith will be back soon but South Africa’s first non-white captain Ashwell Prince knows he can make a differenceSunday
16 July '06Murakami says short stories are guideposts to his heart. They reveal his creative selfSaturday
15 July '06The G8 discusses energy security this weekend. Here’s how it could affect temperature readings outside your homeSunday
9 July '06Writing the world’s favourite book couldn’t have been easy. After To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee needed immense dignity just to move on . The story of how she actually did so is fascinatingSaturday
8 July '06Latin America is in the middle of a string of elections that could change its political landscape. Watch carefully, in the course of 12 lively standoffs, the operating principles of the region’s centre-left politics may just be rewritten. Here is the story so farSaturday
24 June '06The Indian story has arrived in the Western media, and America’s most influential journal is looking at it four ways.Sunday
18 June '06Irene Nemirovsky’s work in progress is a startling portrait of occupied FranceSunday
11 June '06Shirin Ebadi’s memoir is a recap of Iran’s turbulent half centurySunday
28 May '06Jason Elliot sets himself the task of measuring the enigma that’s Iran
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