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Sunday 18th May |
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Feature Items
Joy Of Sex Gets Makeover For Generation That Found Viagra 35 years after Dr Alex Comfort introduced the world to the joys of sex, his seminal manual on how to pep up love lives is itself being spiced up to appeal to a 21st-century readership
Books Lost And Found Once dismissed for their bourgeois domesticity, the 20th-century female writers championed by Persephone are now enjoying stealth success
Twelve - Betting On A Dozen Books Each Year One US imprint that got its start just last year has already had a string of hits with a philosophy of 'less is more'
Melvyn Bragg: And The Award For Longevity Goes To... For 30 years Melvyn Bragg has prided himself on the egalitarianism of 'The South Bank Show'. In ITV's current chilly commercial climate he's had to pare back his team – but he'll never stop being a guardian of the arts
Letters Cast New Light On Misunderstood Poet Ezra Pound Letters add impetus to literary historians' reassessment of Pound as perhaps the greatest poet of the last century
David Baddiel Struggles With Fiction In Translation 'However great the translation, I always think I am missing something'
The Author Who Fought The Shoe Shop Novelist Joan Brady blames a shoe shop for toxins that she says gave her nerve disease. Her son describes her five-year fight
Critical Condition Literary journalism needs to get better if it is to survive
Why Milton Needs Restoring To Glory Educationalists hate our European heritage of shared classical literature
The Two Faces Of Amis So who is the real Martin Amis?
When Ignorance Is Bliss The epidemic of misery in the English-speaking west has been caused not by rampant consumerism, but by our addiction to therapy culture
The English Critic All America Fears James Wood, the critic who picks off the literary establishment with the accuracy of a hunter stalking his prey
A Life Of Their Own From Jane Eyre to Jean Brodie, David Copperfield to David Brent, whether solidly realised or lightly sketched, fictional figures can be as vivid to us as real people. But just what, exactly, is a character, asks James Wood
Melvin Burgess Sees His Characters Come To Life On The Internet Bestselling teen author explains how he adapted his new book, Sara's Face, for the internet
Art Attack Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him is an increasingly influential movement of political artists operating outside the mainstream
Walter Mosley On Book Publishing, Mysteries and Yiddish
It Seems It Ain't Art If It Ain't Ethnic 'The Arts Council has never offered to translate my books into Urdu. Or Jilly Cooper's...'
Xiaolu Guo's Cultured Revolution Xiaolu Guo's journey far from home is typical of the new generation in her country
Stop This Stream Of Sob Stories From Self-pitying Middle-class Writers Another month, another sob-story; the embellished memories of some poor ickle depressed or alcoholic oofums
'If Children Are To Become Readers For Life, They Must First Love Stories' We are in a muddle about literacy. We worry endlessly that children in Britain are not becoming readers
Ladies, Why You Must Write The Wrongs In the world of high-profile gender wars, forget all that Mars-Venus stuff. The law of the jungle prevails. As top men revert to the satiric behaviour of ape-like ancestors, their forsaken women do something much more modern and clever. They write about it
The Book Is Dead. Long Live Facebook! Novels may decline, but not creativity. A publisher foresees a revolution in reading
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Normal Life Taken To The Max The Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte explains why he writes about war
John Milton: The Poet Who Gave Us 'Star Trek' And 'The Matrix' Without him nothing would be terrific, nobody would be sensuous, and we would never have gone into space
E-books Read Well, But Paper's More Palatable The number of people subscribing to newspapers may be shrinking as they flock to the Internet, but electronic book readers won't shred the market for ink, paper, glue and binding anytime soon |
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