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FOUR LEGS GOOD
George Orwell's sister found that while pigs might be wonderful symbols they were also not bad eating.
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THE BEATEN DOCKET
Ideas are not cost-free, argues Ronald Aronson. They have consequences, and we cannot shrug our shoulders about those and say 'nothing to do with me'.
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DRESSED TRIPE AND TIPSY FIGS
The American writer James Salter, in a piece entitled “Michelin Man” collected in the volume Eat Memory: Great Writers at the Table, traces his first...
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WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA
Evelyn Waugh went to Abyssinia as a war reporter in 1935, where he mostly missed the war but thought the Italians were doing a good job of spreading civilisation in darkest Africa.
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PHILIP LARKIN IN WEST BELFAST
The young poet arrived in Ulster's capital in 1950 and soon got his first glimpse of the province's great tradition of sectarian politics.
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POLITICAL POETS
Beware of poets' mere opinions or opinionating, writes David Wheatley. Many construct whole personae to this end, while secretly defying the reader to see them awry, in an entirely different light.
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DOES GLOBAL CULTURE EXIST?
Tim Parks asks if the power of global literary models, particularly in fiction, can have harmful effects on personal and national self-expression.
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Philip Roth: Enough Failure
Philip Roth's French interview announcing the end of his writing career has just been published in English.
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REMEMBERING WILFRED OWEN
Today is Remembrance Day. But what is it that we are remembering - the dead or "the fallen", the pity of war or its glory, waste or "sacrifice"?
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THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
Orhan Pamuk talks about his most recently translated novel and his Museum of Innocence project in Istanbul, based on the novel of the same name.
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CHEAP SHOTS
AN Wilson has a bit of a laugh at the expense of victims of sexual exploitation.
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