

Saturday 17 October '09
East Europe, 1989: seen as a writers’ revolution....Friday 25 September '09
Obama, Netanyahu, Abbas met, but it was mere protocol....Saturday
19 September '09Love and Obstacles Aleksandar Hemon Picador £ 5.99, 210 pagesSaturday
8 August '09J.M. Coetzee’s fictionalised memoir traces a writer in the no man’s land between Africa and EuropeTuesday
4 August '09In the battle for history, Moscow attempts to checkmate the EUSunday
28 June '09Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie as the first global salvo of radical Islam n Sudeep PaulWednesday
3 June '09Change, in the person of Barack Obama, is coming to the Middle East this week...Sunday
17 May '09Tash Aw travels to the heart of Sukarno’s IndonesiaThursday
7 May '09Encounters with Salman Rushdie, recently published by Penguin and edited by Daniel Herwitz and Ashutosh Varshney...Saturday
25 April '09In a report in The Guardian on April 16, the day India had its first round of polling, Randeep Ramesh enlightened his reader...Friday
20 March '09When Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel in 1964, it wasn’t a stunt of one kind or the other.Thursday
12 February '09Israel’s election disappointed leftists, gladdened the far-rightSunday
8 February '09Roberto Bolaño died in 2003. But his work is only just beginning to revolutionise fictionSunday
1 February '09Nine ways to understand John UpdikeFriday
30 January '09In 1960, the late Israeli satirist Ephraim Kishon viewed Israel as a land rebuilding the Tower of Babel.Sunday
18 January '09John Updike’s witches return, widowed and wrinkled, but America has moved onWednesday
7 January '09Domestic politics underlies Israel’s decisions in Gaza - or does it?Monday
29 December '08Harold Pinter’s plays will outlast the public memory of his politicsThursday
11 December '08Houghton’s youngsters have few local heroes but many international ones. Bring them all over, as and when they retire, and let nobody say that we shouldn’t bother about a sport we are hopelessly inept atMonday
8 December '08Since FA didn’t have an issue in the wake of Mumbai, it offered as backgrounders two seminal essays it had published earlier...Wednesday
3 December '08When there was evidence enough of a cross-border link, ‘The Guardian’ wrote a beautiful editorial about nothingWednesday
12 November '08Yesterday may once more have been the last Armistice Day in living memory of combat. Four million viewers watched BBC’s Remembrance...Sunday
2 November '08Aravind Adiga maps the moral geography of a small town between the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. This book is the laboratory that would produce The White TigerMonday
27 October '08Expectedly, at its emergency meeting in Vienna, OPEC decided to slash production. It settled for a 5 per cent output cut, which translates into 1.5 million barrels per day.Thursday
16 October '08Adiga’s Booker win raises hopes for nuance in books about India