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Issue 168 March 2010
Jonathan Safran Foer on eating animals
4th March 2010 - Issue 168
The prize-winning American novelist talks about why it's weird to eat meat, his move from fiction to journalism, and why eliminating ignorance will lead to more vegetarianism
Comment (6)Paddling in the shallows
4th March 2010 - Issue 168
Dave Eggers, one of the most powerful figures in current American writing, has tackled Hurricane Katrina. But he fails to get under the skin of New Orleans
The limits of genius
4th March 2010 - Issue 168
Michael Scammell’s authorised life of Arthur Koestler was intended to restore the reputation of Stalinism’s great scourge. Instead, Koestler emerges as a monster
Unnatural selection
4th March 2010 - Issue 168
An elegant new book by one of the world’s most important cognitive scientists is an all-out assault on Darwinism. Unfortunately, its arguments are simply wrong
Issue 167 February 2010
Martin Amis: the Prospect interview
4th March 2010 - Issue 167
Britain's most controversial novelist talks to Tom Chatfield about his new book, the sexual revolution, Philip Larkin's sex life, and why JM Coetzee is no good
The dandy of Strawberry Hill
4th March 2010 - Issue 167
A celebrity of the 18th century, Horace Walpole divided polite society. Now the re-opening of his home and a show at the V&A will restore his reputation, says Duncan Fallowell
The making of the middle east
4th March 2010 - Issue 167
If you want to understand who the modern Arabs are and how their relationship with the western world has evolved, you will not find a better book
Guilt, victimhood and the German ’68ers
4th March 2010 - Issue 167
A fascinating intellectual history of the 1968 generation of radicals in West Germany charts their descent into the very thing they professed to loathe
Issue 166 January 2010
Illuminating the human heart
4th March 2010 - Issue 166
The Nobel winner of 2006 has defied the prize’s curse to write a rich novel that is both a tragic love story and an epic poem, nestled in its setting of Istanbul
Dispatches from hell
4th March 2010 - Issue 166
At the peak of his powers, TS Eliot battled misery and melancholia. This second volume of his letters offers a fascinating guide to these harrowing years
Danish cartoons: the tyranny of moderation
4th March 2010 - Issue 166
An important new book on the Danish cartoons affair has been censored by the continuing threat of violence. It is another defeat for free speech
Issue 158 May 2009
Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn: a New York miniature
4th March 2010 - Issue 158
By refusing to show off, Costa Book award winner Colm Tóibín has achieved something remarkable: a historical novel that transports its readers while its author stays almost invisible
Martin Amis: will he return to form?
4th March 2010 - Issue 158
Will the next ten months see Britain's most controversial novelist finally return to his best?
Issue 154 January 2009
As good as Heaney
4th March 2010 - Issue 154
It's easy to be blinded by the dazzle of Clive James's many talents. Yet his most enduring claim to greatness is not his novels, satire or journalism, but his exquisite essays and poems
Tomorrow I shall be sober
4th March 2010 - Issue 154
Kingsley Amis was one of the great drinkers of the 20th century—opinionated, blustering, offensive, and rarely less than hilarious
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