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Amsterdam to Wolf Hall, Booker winners and bestsellers – authors including JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman, Nick Hornby and Ian McEwan annotate their own first editions. The books will be auctioned at Sotheby's next week in aid of English PEN
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The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, has divided medical opinionThe field of mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.Early drafts of the book, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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Film promising revelations about reclusive Catcher in the Rye author has been snapped up by movie mogul Harvey WeinsteinJD Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, was one of America's most famous recluses and guarded his private life with fanatical dedication. Yet even he might have been impressed by the immense efforts being undertaken to keep details secret of a new documentary...
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Kromě slovenské literatury se letošní veletrh Svět knihy výrazně věnuje poezii. Na koncepci programu se podílel i přední český básník Petr Borkovec. "Noví čeští básníci zkoumají, co všechno lze básní říct. Jak psát poezii jako glosu, jak se společensky angažovat, jak propojit báseň s vizuálním uměním, s hudbou," tvrdí Borkovec.
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From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon explainsConsider this curious item of furniture, which belongs to the Geffrye Museum in London and appears at Turner Contemporary, Margate, as part of Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing. The object in question, at...
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In “City of Ambition,” Mason B. Williams explores what drove a patrician Democrat and a street-smart Republican to revive New York City from the Great Depression.
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Ed Vulliamy won the prize for his book Amexica: War Along the Borderline, which documents the US-Mexican drug warsEd Vulliamy, the Observer writer, has won the 2013 Kapuściński award in Poland for his book Amexica: War Along the Borderline.Amexica describes the extraordinary horror of the drug war unfolding on the US-Mexican frontier. Vulliamy travelled across the border on and off for 30...
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Part of Shane Salerno's film about The Catcher in the Rye author is screened at Cannes after nine years in productionIt has been veiled in mystery and speculation, and has been nine years in the making. But now a few minutes of the highly anticipated documentary about JD Salinger by Shane Salerno – chiefly known as a writer of action films including Savages and Alien vs Predator – has been...
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As tourists flock to the city, local heroes like the Undertones and visitors like BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend are helping to give it a feelgood factorAt the porch of St Augustine's Anglican church, wedged on Derry's walls between the loyalist Fountain estate and the republican Bogside below, volunteers Elma and Ivan Taylor were delightedly greeting their latest stream of foreign visitors.As Derry's...
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The arts interview: The artist tells Nicholas Wroe that getting out of her comfort zone and challenging prejudices is what makes her tickIn the quarter of a century since the artist came to public prominence she has been associated with an exceptionally wide variety of work. She was initially known for pieces in which she violently destroyed objects and then eerily suspended the resulting debris...
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