Essays and Opinion

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  03 July 2009

  Growing up with the King of Pop

  Worshipping Michael Jackson in Jamaica

  • Marlon James
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  22 June 2009

  After the Affair

  An exchange: The tumultous relationship between Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford

  • Maud Newton
  • Alexander Chee
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  11 June 2009

  Tales from literary festivals

  From Manchester to Mumbai, the festival circuit is dynamic and diverse

  • Anita Sethi
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  18 May 2009

  Love in the Time of Swine Flu

  Letter from Mexico City

  • Alexis Okeowo
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  27 April 2009

  A vacation from myself

  What I gained, and lost, from antidepressants

  • John Beckman
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  03 April 2009

  Lost and Found

  The genius of Charles Lamb

  • Je Banach
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  04 March 2009

  Paradox of Plenty

  Patrolling the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea on the US Coast Guard Cutter Dallas

  • Michael Peel
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  04 March 2009

  Fly Away Home

  A dispatch from Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Paul Currion
• 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