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Literature's Self-implosion
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

We need expert evaluative critics – but our professors keep denying the value of literature itself

Book Design: Covers And Packaging
www.graphics.com

Graphics.com is offering an excerpt of Charlotte Rivers's Book-Art: Innovation in Design, a review of new and interesting book design

Book Lovers Ask, What's Seattle's Secret?
www.nytimes.com

The Seattle area is the home of Amazon, Starbucks and Costco, three companies that increasingly influence what America reads

You Brits Just Love Being Miserable
books.guardian.co.uk

Author of an acclaimed new book on global happiness pities the frumpy, grumpy British

Lust In Four Languages Has Critics Railing
books.guardian.co.uk

Compared to Professor Steiner, the autobiography of the busty glamour-model Jordan is a beacon of restraint

Bhutto Book Says She Had Assassins' Names
uk.reuters.com

Benazir Bhutto returned home knowing the names and cell phone numbers of her possible assassins

Are You An Infomaniac?
women.timesonline.co.uk

Or you could be a slacktivist, or maybe even a maturialist

'If You Don't Scare Anyone, You Haven't Really Succeeded'
books.guardian.co.uk

The first time Roberto Saviano stepped inside a mafia don's house, he urinated in the bath. This raw hatred - and reckless defiance - of the mob drove him to expose them in a bestselling book

A Cheltenham Lady's Guide To Teenage Speak, For All Those Phat-free Mouldies
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

It is reputed to have given the world the word "chav"; now Cheltenham Ladies' College is teaching it to talk teen, thanks to a pupil

Britain's Rudest Road Signs
arts.independent.co.uk

It was clear that, for some reason, people believed that names like Twatt and Shitterton were rude

The Stories Behind Some Of Literature's Best-known Novels
arts.independent.co.uk

Would 'Catch-22' still be a masterpiece if it was called 'Catch-18'?

Setlists Haven't Featured Much In Music Literature - Until Now
arts.independent.co.uk

New pocketbook that features a collection of setlists from seminal gigs

Santa Sebag Montefiore: How Tara's Sister Became The 'Lit Girl'
www.telegraph.co.uk

In just seven years, romantic novelist Santa Sebag Montefiore has sold two million books and her ninth saga is under way

Alice Sebold: 'Happiness Is Not A Threat'
arts.independent.co.uk

After the bestselling traumas of Lucky and The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's new novel goes further into the dark

How To Be A Real Latin Lover - According To A 2,000 Year Old Self-help Book
www.dailymail.co.uk

The citizens of 2,000 years ago left a series of DIY handbooks on how to find — and keep — the partner of your dreams

Lynne Truss: Stop The Apostrophe Catastrophe!
www.telegraph.co.uk

With her new children's book, grammar queen Lynne Truss hopes to encourage the next generation of punctuation pedants

Kate Mosse Talks About Her Follow-up To Her Huge Hit Labyrinth
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Don't confuse her with the supermodel, but the bestselling author knows a thing or two about success in her own right

Joe Hill: How I Took A Shine To The Family Business
www.telegraph.co.uk

The horror writer Joe Hill tells Craig McLean that despite having Stephen King for a father he lets his pen name do its job

The Man Who Invented The Blockbuster
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Harold Robbins's racy bestsellers sold sex and glamour to the mass market - and his life was as lurid as his novels

Tears In Heaven
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Struggling to rebuild his life after decades of addiction, Eric Clapton lost his son Conor in a horrifying freak accident. Here for the first time the rock star tells the full story

Censored Out
arts.independent.co.uk

Actor Neil Pearson's new book focuses on a very British pornographer

Pippi Longstocking: The Swedish Superhero
www.telegraph.co.uk

On the centenary of Astrid Lindgren's birth, Pippi Longstocking has been redrawn for a new generation

How To Be A Latin Lover
books.guardian.co.uk

Forget all those modern guides to dating

Gosh! Mystery Of How Blyton Got Her Revenge
books.guardian.co.uk

New biography claims the beloved children's author hid a secret code in her work to make cruel jokes at the expense of her first husband

Cherie Blair Signs Book Deal
books.guardian.co.uk

Cherie Blair has agreed a deal to write an autobiography.


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The Art Of William Steig By Claudia J Nahson
books.guardian.co.uk

Drawn to the charms of an ogre

The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film C 1900 By Lynda Nead
books.guardian.co.uk

The shock of the new on old arts

Another Country: New And Selected Poems By Jane Griffiths
books.guardian.co.uk

Starlings in italic

The Secret Life Of Poems: A Poetry Primer By Tom Paulin
books.guardian.co.uk

A puritan at play

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