Books
The changing face of home
Wednesday 23 June, 2010
Daniel Barrow sees in Ian Jack’s ‘The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain’ a rare and precise reflection on a country less familiar than it seems
Solar power
Tuesday 27 April, 2010Tom Goodenough delves into Ian McEwan’s latest questioning effort
A creator of worlds
Wednesday 17 March, 2010Joanna Foakes tests the limits of imagination in the work of Amos Oz
Authors
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Writers at Warwick: Ian McEwan reads from Solar
Wednesday 23 June, 2010Ian McEwan is not an easy man to embarrass. His writings frequently revolve around awkward …
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Life’s Rich Tapestry
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
Jean Baggott - Warwick student and author - talks to Tom Goodenough and Dave Burnett about a personal history with deep significance
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Claws out, but who’s watching?
Tuesday 2 March, 2010William Lewis offers his views on the rise and pause of the graphic novel within the illustrative genre
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Wit in the midst of absurdity Roberto Bolaño
Tuesday 2 March, 2010
Daniel Barrow finds Bolaño’s dark hearted yet satirical fiction lurking in the deathly shadows of South American suffering
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The private world of Orwell Peter Davison, George Orwell
Monday 22 February, 2010
In reading the published diaries of the great author Tom Goodenough encounters a literary figure faithful to the end of his days
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Is Democracy “Demon Crazy”? Arundhati Roy
Monday 22 February, 2010 - 1 comment
Away from the glare of the Hollywood spotlight Alex Campbell looks at the true nature of Indian democracy
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A Failed Expedition? Colm Toibin
Monday 22 February, 2010Sophie Shanahan sees why Colm Toibin may have missed out on the Costa Book Prize
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Pile ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap
Tuesday 2 February, 2010
Celebrity self-promotion and the business of book-selling makes a melting-pot of misery for Leah Cowan
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Warwick Arts Centre: Colm Toibin
Tuesday 2 February, 2010
On 14th January 2010, Colm Toibin was invited to give the annual Donald Charlton Lecture, …
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A new literary canon?
Tuesday 2 February, 2010
Matt Cassells thinks it may be time to ignore the sneers and embrace the much-derided graphic novel
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Meltdown Ben Elton
Tuesday 19 January, 2010
Has the witchhunt for bankers’ blood gone too far? Alexandra Campbell reviews Ben Elton’s latest
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Outside of a Dog Rick Gekoski
Tuesday 19 January, 2010
The Bibliomemoir - Katie Herring traces a journey through books and selves
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The Humbling
Monday 7 December, 2009
Tom Goodenough peers into the dark mind of Philip Roth
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Unseen Academicals
Monday 7 December, 2009The 37th novel in Pratchett’s “Discworld” series has been nervously awaited. Long-standing fans feared a …
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Superfreakonomics
Monday 7 December, 2009Prostitutes, drink-walking and insuring terrorists: Matt Cassells considers an innovative account of economics outside the classroom
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Her Fearful Symmetry
Monday 23 November, 2009
Sophie Shanahan is thrilled by the haunting morbidity of Audrey Niffenegger's newest offering
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Summertime and the living’s easy
Thursday 29 October, 2009
Tom Goodenough reviews John Coetzee's fictional biography
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The Kindly Ones
Sunday 21 June, 2009
To strive for nothing except to strive for nothing: Jon Parker struggles to get to get to grips with Jonathan Littell's unwieldy Second World War epic.
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940 Samuel Beckett
Sunday 21 June, 2009The commentary for the first volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters, 1929-1940, is kind enough to …
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The Little Stranger
Sunday 21 June, 2009The strange ravages of time: Ruth Elizabeth Waters finds more social commentary than spine- chilling horror in Sarah Waters' latest novel.
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The colour of magic
Tuesday 21 April, 2009
Jon Ware casts a glance at Terry Pratchett's oeuvre, reminding us that we cannot afford to forget about him too quickly.
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Dynamic poetry
Tuesday 21 April, 2009Jon Ware talks with Alex Freer, editor of new Warwick-based poetry magazine Angelic Dynamo.
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Naomi Klein on iTunes U
Tuesday 10 March, 2009Those who couldn't make it to the awarding of the Warwick Prize for Writing to …
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The Shack William P. Young
Tuesday 10 March, 2009Bridging the gap: Dave Burnett wonders whether Christian literature can ever reach a wider readership.
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Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Adrian Desmond and James Moore
Tuesday 10 March, 2009A right Charlie: A new Darwin biography covers new ground.
Archive
Colm Toibin
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A Failed Expedition? Colm Toibin
Monday 22 February, 2010Sophie Shanahan sees why Colm Toibin may have missed out on the Costa Book Prize
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Warwick Arts Centre: Colm Toibin
Tuesday 2 February, 2010On 14th January 2010, Colm Toibin was invited to give the annual Donald Charlton Lecture, …
Graphic novels
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Claws out, but who’s watching?
Tuesday 2 March, 2010William Lewis offers his views on the rise and pause of the graphic novel within the illustrative genre
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A new literary canon?
Tuesday 2 February, 2010Matt Cassells thinks it may be time to ignore the sneers and embrace the much-derided graphic novel
History
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Life’s Rich Tapestry
Wednesday 17 March, 2010Jean Baggott - Warwick student and author - talks to Tom Goodenough and Dave Burnett about a personal history with deep significance
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O say can you read?
Tuesday 20 January, 2009Perhaps Jefferson’s quotation is the most prescient, ‘history, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future’. It serves as a pithy summary of the book’s pitch at any rate.
Ian McEwan
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Writers at Warwick: Ian McEwan reads from Solar
Wednesday 23 June, 2010Ian McEwan is not an easy man to embarrass. His writings frequently revolve around awkward …
Naomi Klein
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Naomi Klein on iTunes U
Tuesday 10 March, 2009Those who couldn't make it to the awarding of the Warwick Prize for Writing to …
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Shock winner
Tuesday 3 March, 2009Naomi Klein wins the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, John Ware attends the bizarre but brilliant awards evening.
Terry Pratchett
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Unseen Academicals
Monday 7 December, 2009The 37th novel in Pratchett’s “Discworld” series has been nervously awaited. Long-standing fans feared a …
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The colour of magic
Tuesday 21 April, 2009Jon Ware casts a glance at Terry Pratchett's oeuvre, reminding us that we cannot afford to forget about him too quickly.
