Lionel Shriver

                   

Why Americans love Laura Bush

telegraph.co.uk
15-Nov-2008
        

As Mrs Bush prepares her memoirs, Lionel Shriver unravels the appeal of a First Lady who is as beloved as her husband is disliked. Uneasy about her husband's running for governor of Texas, Mrs Bush actively discouraged him from...

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What is Progress? Let the Battle of Ideas decide

asianage.com
10-Nov-2008
        

By Antara Dev Sen Hallelujah! Some sign of progress in the disturbingly regressive worlds that we lust after. Mr Barack Obama’s victory suggests that America — light of our life, fire of our loins, our sin, our soul — is...

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Two on Toni

bookninja.com
04-Nov-2008
        

Two pieces on Toni Morrison: one, a lukewarm review, by Lionel Shriver in the Telegraph, and one on the dangers of celebrity in the Guardian. All writers, to a greater or lesser extent, have to have a private and a public...

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Experts Predict Obama Supporters May Feel Let Down If He Wins

cnsnews.com
04-Nov-2008 19 related
        

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 By Kevin McCandless A supporter wears an Obama watch as the Democratic presidential candidate speaks at a rally in Northern Virginia on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) London...

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Toni Morrison: a place out of no place

telegraph.co.uk
03-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Lionel Shriver enjoys the poerty of a Nobel laureate's new novella, A Mercy, but misses the driving power of its great predecessor In something of a prequel to her gripping 1987 novel Beloved, Toni Morrison's new book, A Mercy,...

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Twelve prominent Americans give their verdict George Bush's cultural legacy

guardian.co.uk
31-Oct-2008
        

One book fair, hours of satire, and the Dixie Chicks - Twelve prominent Americans give their verdict Paul Auster Author I'm hard-pressed to think of a single thing the Bush administration has done to promote the arts. Joyce...

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The browser: Council has rewritten the book on ludicrous acts

scotsman.com
25-Oct-2008
        

Published Date: 26 October 2008 Public libraries – as you'd expect, The Browser has an especial fondness for these oases of civilisation, erudition, tranquility and, er, state censorship. In an almost unbelievably crass...

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Shorties (Haruki Murakami, Lily Allen, and more)

largeheartedboy.com
25-Oct-2008 1 related
        

In the Wall Street Journal, Lionel Shriver criticizes the current literary fashion of not using quotation marks. The refusal to make a firm distinction between speech and interior reflection can also evoke a hermetic worldview....

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