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African jewels
A timely anthology of short stories reveals the strength of contemporary African fiction and the growth of globalised, “post-national” literature
Ruth Franklin,
Prospect, 24 August 2011
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No middle ground
Of course, if time were limitless the curriculum would contain everything and everyone, from Chaucer to Grand Theft Auto IV via Biggles and the Teletubbies, giving children an experience of the best that has been written and an opportunity to understand the popular. But Mr Reynolds’s experience shows that time is not unlimited...
Ciaran Guilfoyle,
Culture Wars, 4 August 2011
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From Progress to Catastrophe
Within the huge multiverse of prose fiction the historical novel has, almost by definition, been the most consistently political.
Perry Anderson,
London Review of Books, 28 July 2011
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They are made a spectacle unto the world
All three books succeed in destroying comprehensively the illusion that the early games of the modern Olympic movement reflected an age of innocence in which the four horsemen of the athletic apocalypse, corruption, professionalism, nationalism and doping, had not yet impaired Baron de Coubertin’s vision of a revival of the ethos of ancient Greece.
Michael Beloff,
Spectator, 26 July 2011
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Capital values
A year before they are due to begin, the Olympic games have had a dramatic physical effect on east London. The economic effects are less tangible
Economist, 21 July 2011
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Flagging up the past
One of the great intellectuals of post-1989 Europe gives his verdict on what happened when the Berlin Wall fell and communism finally collapsed
Economist, 16 June 2011
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