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LONDON, Feb 5 — London in the 21st century is not all that different from the heaving Victorian metropolis forever preserved in the novels of English writer Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday is next week.Fans of Dickens can still walk the same streets of the city — whose population helped to inspire such characters as Oliver Twist, ... Read More
Afghan boys sell books along a road during winter in Kabul February 5, 2012. — Reuters pic
Restored Magna Carta to go on display in Washington
LONDON, Feb 5 — A copy of the Magna Carta, the English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, is to be displayed at the US National Archives in Washington from February ... Read More
Tom Stoppard, beneficiary of the subconscious
JAIPUR, Feb 5 — From time-bending drama to the absurd adventures of Shakespeare’s supporting cast, almost 50 years of work has brought playwright Tom Stoppard popular, critical ... Read More
Cookbook offers taste of Mandela’s table
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 4 – Nelson Mandela’s personal chef of 20 years launched her first cookbook recently, giving the world a taste of some of the anti-apartheid hero’s favourite ... Read More
Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Charles Dickens
LONDON, Feb 4 — Queen Elizabeth is throwing a star-studded party for him at Buckingham Palace and in Buenos Aires, leading cultural figures will gather in an old orphanage to read ... Read More
Nobel-winning Polish poet Szymborska dies aged 88
WARSAW, Feb 2 – Nobel-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died yesterday at the age of 88, her assistant Michal Rusinek announced.Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for ... Read More
US author traces Rimbaud’s mysterious Java journey
KEROBOKAN, Indonesia, Jan 29 — In 1876 French poet Arthur Rimbaud joined the Dutch colonial army, sailed to the Indonesian island of Java and then deserted and fled into the ... Read More
The fall and rise of a North Korean Everyman
TOKYO, Jan 27 — Pak Jun Do is a dutiful North Korean. Raised in an orphanage, he follows orders to become a soldier, a kidnapper of Japanese citizens and an intelligence officer, ... Read More
‘Mein Kampf’ excerpts struck from German magazine
BERLIN, Jan 25 — Excerpts from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” will be wiped from a magazine supplement due to go on sale in Germany tomorrow following the threat of legal action from the ... Read More
Novel ‘Pure’ wins Costa prize amid ‘bitter dissent’
LONDON, Jan 25 — Andrew Miller’s novel “Pure” won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award yesterday, beating four other category winners after what the chair of judges described as ... Read More
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- Bill Cosby muses on life in latest book
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- Michelle Obama sparred with White House advisors
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