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Always among the most cerebral of managers, Fulham's Roy Hodgson has excelled himself by issuing a list of his top 10 favourite novels which includes heavyweight authors like Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Saul Bellow, Philip...
Delivering this year's Orwell Memorial Lecture to a packed house at Birkbeck College, Hilary Mantel understandably chose to talk about Thomas Crom-well, the hero of her Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall.
Published Date: 22 November 2009 HAPPY hookers, lesbians being "converted" by ageing men and the head of the Girls' Schools Association explaining that women can be clever and still, like, look nice. It started with an...
Ian Brown cuddles up with the e-reading device and finds it akin to having sex while wearing multiple condoms: clinical, fiddly, way less fun than a romp through a good old book Do you ever find yourself all on your own at the...
In Philip Roth's new novel, "The Humbling," an aging actor seeks redemption through an affair with a younger woman. "The Humbling" by Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp., $22 When the aging heroes of Philip Roth's...
Critics have charged that the new Google deal still lacks pricing and privacy protections; a slew of award-winning authors are in the running for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award; an online authors’ directory now has a...
H.J. Kirchhoff walks you through the latest releases, with titles from Stephen King, Julie Powell, Philip Roth and more UNDER THE DOME By Stephen King, read by Raúl Esparza, Simon & Schuster, 35 hours on 30 CDs, unabridged,...
According to today’s Grauniad, the great Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Literary Review’s bad sex award. This trophy (a plaster foot) was inaugurated by the late Auberon Waugh to “draw attention to the crude,...
As the shortlist for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award is announced, a former winner examines the art of writing sex scenes. Now in its 17th year, the annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award is always...
W hile much of the media’s attention over this year’s Nobel Prizes was over Barack Obama’s shock Nobel Peace Prize Award, a similarly contentious (if more under the radar) Nobel Prize went to Romanian/German author Herta...
