Essays & Memoir

• 31 January 2009

  Updike Remembered

  Writers pay tribute to an American master

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  29 January 2009

  Why Updike Matters

  The death of John Updike is a literary disaster

  • Joseph O’Neill
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  19 January 2009

  Lost in Translation

  How do you translate the greatest political orator in a generation?

  • Daniel Alarcón
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  05 December 2008

  The attacks in Mumbai

  Last week’s terrorist atrocities resist language and logic

  • Rana Dasgupta
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  18 November 2008

  Person of the Year

  Who will Time magazine choose? Our hunch is this bunch

  • Roy Robins
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  05 November 2008

  How Obama Won

  How Barack Obama built a movement, beat Hillary, won over America and made history

  • Ian Leslie
• 05 November 2008

  Polling in New York City

  Voters and volunteers, clerks and cops in the five boroughs of NYC

  • Owen Sheers
• 04 November 2008

  Saved to ‘Drafts’

  The US election has driven me insane

  • ZZ Packer
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  03 November 2008

  US Election Special

  Daniel Alarcón, Lionel Shriver, Ruth Franklin, Andrew Hussey, Hanan al-Shaykh, Akash Kapur, Paul Kingsnorth, Ariel Leve and Dinaw Mengestu on the race for the White House

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  09 October 2008

  Opinion

  Not every writer wants to win the Nobel Prize

  • Roy Robins