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From the pearls of Zadie to the D cups of Jordan

20.11.09
As 2010 draws nearer, the literary world is starting to ask: what were the defining novels of the Noughties?... more

Iraq backdrop to Alastair Campbell's choice

14.10.09
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Royal Academy to run climate change exhibition

01.07.09
The Royal Academy is to present Britain's first art exhibition dedicated to climate change... more

Political humour as subtle as a man thrown down a stairwell

13.05.09
Just so that we're straight on this from the beginning, you should know that I like Barack Obama. Got that book he wrote about his dad and dreams and everything... more

Shocking secrets in Tusk, Tusk

02.04.09
After her precocious debut at 19, with the award-winning That Face, Polly Stenham's second play, Tusk Tusk, confirms a startling, theatrical promise.... more

I’ll talk up your book if you praise mine

03.12.08
'Tis the season of festive cheer and literary logrolling... more

The thing about Ross is - he's just very funny

31.10.08
I blame the credit crunch. Only terminal weariness with hearing about our ever-worse economic prospects can explain why Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross dominated the news all week.... more

For You is dark opera worth waiting for

29.10.08
Ian McEwan's mildly salacious scenario, his debut as an opera librettist in For You, serves as a spicy vehicle for Michael Berkeley's latest opera.... more

And the winners are not...

15.10.08
The Man Booker judges have determined that Aravind Adiga's debut novel about the seamier side of Indian life is the best fiction of the year. How do they do that?... more

Dummy film-maker is promising talent

10.10.08
Getting its London premiere tonight at Raindance, Matthew Thompson's debut feature, Dummy, has a lot more going for it than its unfortunate title. ... more

Literary Life

08.10.08
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Off the record

19.09.08
From Coldplay to KT Tunstall — charities are finding that enlisting musicians is the ideal way to get their message to a jaded public.... more

Keira Knightley: 'Missing university makes me feel stupid'

02.08.08
Keira Knightley has admitted missing out on university because of her film career has left her with a chip on her shoulder.The 23-year-old hopes to prove herself to be brainy by reading more.... more

Ian McEwan's long-lost brother tells the story of how he was given away at birth

27.06.08
It could be an Ian McEwan novel: an only child given away at birth tracks down his secret family and discovers he has a famous brother. The twist? It’s true ...and the brother IS Ian McEwan. Here,they tell their extraordinary story ... more

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

06.06.08
The Booker at the Movies will screen four of the 39 films so far adapted from novels that won or were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... more

JK and the bust that nearly got away

10.04.08
Author JK Rowling clearly intended to make a splash at the prestigious British Book Awards. But she suffered an embarrassing cleavage malfunction in her waist-cinching purple satin dress, and her blushes were spared only with the help of her male assistant... more

Top Opera House tickets hit £210 to pay for lower prices in the gods

19.03.08
Top prices at the Royal Opera House are rising to £210 for the hottest productions featuring stars such as Bryn Terfel... more

Awards success for Atonement and Bourne

10.03.08
Atonement led the way at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, scooping three prizes while The Bourne Ultimatum was named Best Film.... more

Granta One Hundred

22.02.08
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Jordan has shown the book trade how it's done

19.02.08
Just before the Man Booker Prize was awarded last year, an enterprising journalist revealed that the entire shortlist of six had sold fewer copies than Crystal, the second novel issued under the name of Katie Price, the inflatable better known as Jordan. Her book had shifted 159,407 units in just three months, comfortably seeing off the Booker total of 120,770 (nearly all Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, anyway). Literary fiction is a goner, pundits glumly concluded... more

Things are getting critical

15.02.08
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DVDs of the week

05.02.08
World War II romance in Atonement, Jamie Bell as a creepy misfit in Hallam Foe and Richard Gere stars in The Hoax.... more

A great night for Britain at Globes ceremony

14.01.08
War-time drama Atonement led a night of British triumphs at the Golden Globes - without a ceremony to celebrate.... more

Keira's in a class of her own

06.09.07
A postmodern romance, Atonement works best as a riposte to all those films that put high-society women on a pedestal and is one of the finest British films of the year. ... more

Knightley wows fans at Atonement premiere

05.09.07
Keira Knightley delighted fans at the London premiere of her new film Atonement in Leicester Square. ... more

The Wright Stuff

30.08.07
Joe Wright, the toast of Venice with the premiere of his film Atonement, talks about how he became Britain's hottest director.... more

Epic yet intimate, a British triumph

29.08.07
Ian McEwan's 'unfilmable' best-selling novel Atonement - starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy - is already being talked of as a triumph.... more

Coming soon for autumn

24.08.07
After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.... more

And next year's winners will be ...

15.02.07
The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07
After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

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