It’s always been a subject of abiding interest, and now London’s Sunday newspaper, The Observer, is doing a series of articles/sketches about it. Read more

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Posted by meghashankar on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged articles, hindustan times, Jorge Luis Borges, news, sketches, studies, The Observer, windows, Writers
I tend to read fiction and non-fiction often at the same time, or at least I alternate one with the other. Then come those not-so-often periods when I end up reading only the one. The past week has been like that. Read more

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Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, January 17, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Christopher Hitchens, Diana Athill, Down and Out in Paris and London, fiction, George Orwell, memoir, non-fiction, Penguin Modern Classics, reading list, Somewhere towards the End, VS Naipaul
Nielsen Bookscan, which tots up the number of copies of books sold in the UK, has come out with a list of what it calls the top-selling books of all time. Read more

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