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  • How do you organise your books

    Tate Britain purely to look at some Turners in which case you could just follow the arrows to the Ts and give the Reynolds and the Stubbs a miss.Or you could curate an exhibition in the way I have arranged my books at home. Most people looking at my shelves might assume they were stacked randomly; but that is far from the truth. It's just that they are arranged in a way to reflect both the ...

  • Book Review NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

    Victoria McQueen is a little girl in '80s Massachusetts. Her parents despise each other, but she's got a cool bike and a magical bridge that can take her anywhere. Meanwhile, a mysterious man with a freaky car is abducting children. Hill, son of Stephen King, has inherited Dad's addictive gothic-humor sensibility. At nearly 700 ...

  • Mohsin Hamid Islam is not a monolith

    There are more than a billion Muslims in the world, each with an individual view of life. So why are they viewed as a unified group, asks Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant ...

  • WH adviser Partisan fishing expeditions wont distract Obama

    (CBS News) "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the ...

  • AP CEO blasts unconstitutional DOJ probe

    (CBS News) The Associated Press doesn't question the Justice Department's right to have seized two months' worth of its phone records, the organization's president and CEO Gary Pruitt said Sunday on "Face the Nation." It was the methodology - "so sweeping, so secretively, so abusively and harassingly overbroad," he said - that breached the Constitution. As ...

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Nico and Dani (Krámpack)

Nico and Dani (Krámpack) tells the story of the sexual coming-of-age of two 17-year-old boys. This is, of course, a topic that has been worked over in so many different variations in both film and literature that one would think there is nothing of interest left to say about it. Yet, that moment when adolescents stand on the verge of adulthood is a point of such universal won ... ...

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  • Obama Racism is no excuse for not excelling

    As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for ...

  • Book Review Inferno by Dan Brown

    Don Draper isn't the only one who's been reading Dante's Divine Comedy lately. Dan Brown has also been thumbing through the 14th-century classic, which ...

  • Obama to discuss legality of drone program

    WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorism practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official said. Obama's speech will be an attempt to fulfill his State of the Union pledge to be more "transparent" with the public about the controversial drone program that has become the ...

  • Have recent controversies paralyzed Washington

    CBS News political director John Dickerson, Politico's Lois Romano, the New York Times' David Sanger, and the Washington Post's Dan Balz discuss whether recent controversies will prevent Washington from doing any actual ...

  • A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle- review

    Greyhound of a Girl is a short and sweet story that goes much more than the words written on the page. A book with a perfect blend about love and friendship, cheerfulness and seriousness. From the first sentence I was enthralled. The book is set out well and each chapter concentrates on the four main characters. It talks about their thoughts and feelings at certain points you feel like laughing ...

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