Hanif Kureishi

                   

Artists of our misery

hindu.com     Jul 6, 2008          

Something... is a racy compendium of little tales, characters, viewpoints and ideologies. This is the period in his life that Jamal, a settled and successful psychoanalyst, revisits and must confront. “Secrets are my currency:...                    

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Imagination takes flight

ft.com     Jul 5, 2008          

FICTION: Out of Breath By Julie Myerson Myerson’s latest novel is narrated by a 13-year-old ingénue and follows a raggle-taggle group of children who run away from a sinister adult world. Something to Tell You By Hanif Kureishi...                    

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"Brick Lane": An immigrant wife charts her own path

nwsource.com     Jul 4, 2008   10 related          

"Brick Lane" movie review: First-time director Sarah Gavron, adapting a popular novel by Monica Ali, offers a refreshingly feminist variation on a story of Bengali immigrants living in East London before and after the Sept. 11...                    

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The Rooms Of Writers

theatlantic.com     Jun 28, 2008          

The Guardian has a lovely write-up, with lots of photographs, from Rudyard Kipling to AS Byatt. The one above is Hanif Kureishi's, who writes: Above the desk there's a very sexy picture of Kate Moss. I think every writer needs...                    

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nationaltheatre.org.uk: in-i with Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche nationaltheatre.org.uk

in-i

nationaltheatre.org.uk     Jun 26, 2008          

in-i by Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan with visual design by Anish Kapoor If the Greeks had 14 words to describe different ways of loving, how many dare we experience? A major new work of dance theatre created by one of the...                    

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Born in the U.K.

ultrabrown.com     Jun 25, 2008          

Greetings from Bury Park is journie Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir about growing up working class in Luton. Manzoor’s Pakistani father worked at the Vauxhall auto factory, his mother sewed piecework out of her living room, and...                    

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www.blog.de     Jun 24, 2008          

Well, nine of you were still there. We did exercise four of the LPEG unit 2 on the relative clauses. Afterwards I read the short story excerpt of "My son The Fanatic" by Hanif Kureishi to you and you scanned and listed the...                    

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The search for identity

freerepublic.com     Jun 20, 2008   3 related          

Ask the half-Syrian debut novelist Robin Yassin-Kassab to sum up western misconceptions of the Middle East, and he tells a story. In 1996 Yassin-Kassab moved from England, where he grew up with his English mother, to Damascus....                    

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Cover Stories: PFD Agency; Edinburgh International Book Festival; Alan Sillitoe

independent.co.uk     Jun 20, 2008   11 related          

So, as predicted here in April, Caroline Michel has metaphorically clambered into bed with Andrew Neil. This week he led a group of private City investors in a buy-out of the PFD agency from its owners, CSS Stellar. He has paid...                    

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rediff.com: Tannishtha Chatterjee in Brick Lane rediff.com

How Brick Lane was made: Director's cut

rediff.com     Jun 19, 2008   10 related          

Filmmaker Sarah Gavron grew up watching Hollywood's fantasy films, but never seriously thought about the filmmaking process. But Brick Lane -- based on Monica Ali's Man Booker Prize finalist novel -- is about the Bangladeshi...                    

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