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Welcome to the Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale opens with Bhuddist drumming, video wanderings and white mist…

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Disruptive Forces at work in Society

Sex and technology are the forces propelling The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama

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Holocaust Memorial planned for Berlin

The German parliament has approved the building of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin

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Doris Lessing – On Siblings and Stories

Doris Lessing talks about her latest novel, and about the experiences that fed into it

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Exit Mario Puzo, Mafia novel don

Tribute to Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, who has died aged 78

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Her Phantom Husband is a Bestseller

Marie Darrieussecq talks about her second bestseller, My Phantom Husband,

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Barbara Taylor Bradford – More than Romance

Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford talks about her novel, A Sudden Change of Heart

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Eyes Wide Shut – Kidman and Cruise thrill for Kubrick

At last, what Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were up to in Stanley Kubrick's last film

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Ernest Hemingway – Centenary

In the centenary year of his birth, the life and work of American writer Ernest Hemingway

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J. M. Coetzee's latest novel of post-Apartheid Life

How Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee addresses sex and politics in post-Apartheid South Africa

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Verdi floats on success at Bregenz Festival

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera takes place on a fantastical floating stage

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Swimming through Life like a Fish

Ruri Pilgrim's characters swim through life in her novel Fish of the Seto Inland Sea

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Howard Arkley, painter of Australian Suburbia

The suburban visions of Australian painter Howard Arkley, who has died aged 48

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Hitchcock: A Love Affair with Cinema

Meet the master of suspense, British film director Alfred Hitchcock,

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Rita Dove – Poet of her People

American Rita Dove talks about her work, including the poem On the Bus with Rosa Parks

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Leonardo's Horse completed after 500 Years

After 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci's proposal for a giant bronze horse becomes reality

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Heart-break in Willowsville with Joyce Carol Oates

What spell does John Reddy Heart cast over the girls and women of Willowsville?

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Iain Banks gets creepy and corporate

Iain Banks talks about his latest novel, The Business

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Thulani Davis on Black Women Playwrights

Thulani Davis on how there are currently very few black women playwrights

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Michael Frayn's hero – headlong towards his Fate

Michael Frayn talks about his new novel, Headlong

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South Koreans Cooking up a storm in Edinburgh

Highlights of the first week of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe

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East European Literature – out from under Communism

East European writers discuss their experiences of censorship and writing under Communism

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Jorge Luis Borges – Latin American Literary Giant

Profile of Jorge Luis Borges, the great Latin American novelist and poet

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Goethe's literary Legacy

The life and work of great European writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Indian Music Festival with political Overtones

The Festival of Classical and Folk Permformance in India has developed a political edge

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John Adams, American composer

Interview with American composer John Adams who is about to conduct his latest work

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Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina

Review of an English translation of Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina

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Eyes Wide Shut – in Venice

A review of the Toronto and Venice film festivals

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Ruth Rendell – a Life in Crime

Profile of English crime novelist Ruth Rendell

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The rise of 'appointment' television – Ally McBeal

How Ally McBeal has become appointment TV

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