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Terry Eagleton will have no truck with the modern world and its noise and its gadgets and its silly babbling. Fair play to him.
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C’est la meme chose
Some non-Anglo-Saxon cultures, and particularly the French, seem prone to national panic in the face of la globalisation. But rumours and fears of cultural extinction are greatly exaggerated.
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Poet, translator, patient, sinner
Oliver Bernard was a poet and an acclaimed translator of Rimbaud. He got up to a few other things as well.
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Lydia Davis wins International Man Booker
The American minimalist short story writer follows Ismail Kadare, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro and Philip Roth.
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Speak the Best Word
Margaret Fuller, writing in 1840, had some very pertinent things to say about people who have opinions and like to sound off.
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No talent? His eyes flashed angrily
There is still time to book for Dan Brown in Dublin and hear how he does it.
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Saloon Bar Blues
Philip Larkin is still among Britain's most read poets, which must testify to a certain appetite for gloom. Alan Bennett however finds it is sometimes all a little too much.
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Friday Night and the Lights are Low
Dancing in the Regency period may have looked from a distance like a straitlaced and buttoned-up affair, but it was vital to the reproduction of 'good society' and charged with excitement and sexual energy.
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Quiet Please
A new study examines silence in the Christian tradition and its use for good and evil.
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Carson shortlisted for RSL Prize
Liam Carson has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature/Ondaatje prize for his memoir of his parents, Call Mother a Lonely Field.
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The Beautiful German Language
Some people think it sounds harsh, and some very eminent Germans historically thought it wouldn't do, but spoken by the right person it will make you swoon.
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Those who can teach
Remembering the wonderful English actor Richard Griffiths, who died last week aged sixty-five.
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