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We need to talk about Islam, now
Sunday November 15 2009
ALL the documentaries in recent weeks celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall have given us a reason to celebrate the fact that, regardless of our present travails, we live in the free West where the rights of the individual will always triumph over the ideology of the group. Ding, dong, the Witch is dead.
Barry favourite to claim top book prize
Monday November 02 2009
FOUR Irish writers have made the longlist for the world's most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction.
Wife slashed husband for forcing her to violate Muslim faith
Saturday October 31 2009
A devout Muslim woman says she slashed her husband's neck with a kitchen knife as he slept because he forced her to eat pork, wear short skirts and drink alcohol in violation of her religious beliefs.
Art offers no diplomatic immunity
Sunday October 04 2009
THE contest for the year's least surprising news is now officially over as it's announced that Woody Allen has put his name to a petition calling for Polish director Roman Polanski not to be extradited back to the United States from his Swiss jail to face child sex charges.
A new jewel is added to an already glittering crown
Saturday September 19 2009
I have to declare a prejudice -- I am no fan of the Salman Rushdie school of self-importance, where every new book is accompanied by the clatter of a loud and lengthy book tour preceded by the obligatory Observer profile. This club is predominantly, though not exclusively, male and even contains one or two members of our own literati. No names no pack drill. I am, however, very much a fan of the, mostly female, writers who come quietly into the room and leave another perfectly formed offering before tiptoeing out again.
Thriller that's impossible to put down
Friday September 04 2009
Book 20 -- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Why the critics are so wrong about Dan Brown
Saturday August 22 2009
The famous man looked at the wooden lectern. On May 7, 2005, the horror author Stephen King gave the commencement address to graduates at the University of Maine, his home state.
Mr Ripley's talent for crime is sure to thrill...
Friday August 21 2009
Book 18: The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
A comic look at life in the upper classes
Friday August 14 2009
Book 17 -- Jeeves in the Offing by PG Wodehouse
Short stories that astonish and delight
Friday August 07 2009
Book 16 -- Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro
History boys to write their own conclusion
Monday August 03 2009
The rumours of trouble in the Kerry camp remind me of the man who was accused of infidelity by a wife who had heard rumours 'from a concerned friend'. "Was she there?", was his response.
A black and white tale of 1960s apartheid
Friday July 24 2009
Book 14 -- The Late Bourgeois World, by Nadine Gordimer
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