Showing posts with label The Guardian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Guardian. Show all posts
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything

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In 2005, The Guardian wrote: Bryson has been chosen as one of the winners of the prestigious EU Descartes prize for science communication fo...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

The best of the fiction year – review Justine Jordan rounds up our critics' recommendations - from The Guardian

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Of course, Freedom is on this list. But here are a few other interesting tidbits, from this "best of" list. For example: Surely t...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Better Than Freedom from The Slate.com by staff writers and editors

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Editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, Jacob Weisberg's pick: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson. Weisberg's Law states that any J...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Children's books special from Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk by Kate Kellaway

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The Story of the World's Greatest Paintings by Charlie Ayres (Thames & Hudson £9.99) is a picture book about pictures – 20 of the wo...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Links on "NYC Yarn Crawl" | Facebook

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Best in show: knit your own dog | Life and style | guardian.co.uk · www.guardian.co.uk. Highlights of a new book that will help you knit you...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand from Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk

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Author, author: Elif Batuman: Before I first acquired a Kindle, exactly one year ago, I didn't usually buy books while under the influen...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

What's the best way to test a novel before you read it? from Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk by Robert McCrum

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First line, last line, or Ford Madox Ford's p99 challenge? Actually, a good book should pass all of these. Ford Madox Ford is such an ev...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

An economy kept afloat by mafia cash is not just the stuff of Le Carré thrillers | Jonathan Freedland

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If that sounds like the plot of a thriller, that's because it's the set-up of the new and utterly riveting John le Carré novel, Our ...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Is Justin Bieber really old enough for a biography? from Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk by Dorian Lynskey

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The teen sensation is set to publish his first memoir and be the subject of a biopic. Is it really the right time? As if Justin Bieber's...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Does humanitarian aid prolong wars? from The Guardian World News by Andrew Anthony

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Exactly what took place in Ethiopia 25 years ago will probably never be established beyond doubt. After all, it was a war zone mired in chao...