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Nicholas Rixon
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Sean Penn, who just do stuff, has written a thesaurus masquerading as an unreadable debut novel
First Tom Hanks, now Sean Penn. Maybe Hollywood actors should focus on what they do best.
Nicholas Rixon
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Rereading Kurt Vonnegut, the writer who could depict the human condition with paper clips and aliens
One of the world’s foremost fiction writers about the things we struggle to understand, Vonnegut would have been 94 this November.
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Happy birthday, Neil Gaiman: We made a starter kit for those who, unbelievably, haven’t read you yet
There’s more to the master of fantasy than ‘The Sandman’ (although you really shouldn’t miss that either).
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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Shirley Jackson’s novels are eerie literary fiction. She left the best for the last
Fifty-five years after it was published, ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ remains a must-read for those who think horror must be supernatural.
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Before the Booker: George Saunders has captivated readers with a twist on realist fiction for years
Before his 2017 Man Booker Prize winning novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, Saunders created a name for himself with short stories like no other.
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Before Stieg Larsson and Keigo Higashino, it was Raymond Chandler who transformed detective fiction
‘Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.’
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Watch: Glimpses of Indian singer Sid Sriram’s debut performance at Coachella 2024
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The writer of the ‘greatest horror story of our time’ died and (almost) no one noticed
William Peter Blatty wrote ‘The Exorcist’, the book that became the movie that reinvented the genre.
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Sixty-five years later, we still don’t get ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and Holden Caulfield
JD Salinger’s first novel astonished editor and readers alike on being published in July 1951
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