Booker Prize
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You Don’t See the Whole Young Man until the Very End: An Interview with Douglas Stuart
The amount of pressure on young men still to get on with it and to bottle it up and to be strong and be certain is overwhelming. And it shows in the UK. The suicide rates for men are so…
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A Gripping, Limited Call to Arms: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
There are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
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Bumper Year for The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 2012 long-list is out and it’s in with the new. “We were considering novels not novelists, texts not reputations,” says Peter Stothard. Shortlist to come September 11.
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Arundhati Roy’s Political Writing
What has Arundhati Roy been up to since her 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things? This piece answers that, exploring Roy’s current writings on India’s Maoist rebels. “When her essay about the trip, Walking with the Comrades,…
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Rubbish and Blazing Light
Set in contemporary Mumbai, Aravind Adiga’s second novel, Last Man in Tower, focuses on Yogesh Murthy, the man who wants nothing, and the community who doesn’t understand him.