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Critical eye: book reviews roundup

James Shapiro's Contested Will, Roddy Doyle's The Dead [...]

The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui

John Gittings welcomes two books that articulate China's [...]

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson | The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shower by Robert Graysmith

Peter Bradshaw peeks at the strange legacy of [...]

Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review

Susan Fletcher's novel of the Jacobite rebellion makes [...]

Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review

Simon Callow searches for facts among the fantasies

The [...]

Sue Arnold on science audiobooks

The History of Science, written and read by Peter [...]

The sound of the suburbs and literary tradition

The Kinks, the Jam, Blur, Arctic Monkeys – [...]

Archbishop of Canterbury praises Philip Pullman’s story of Jesus

Rowan Williams says author conveys view with 'real [...]

Bedside reading: the naked truth

Celebrity readers always claim to enjoy only the [...]

Philip Pullman’s Jesus, Dan Rhodes, and the latest from the Bologna book fair

In this week's podcast we look at Philip Pullman's latest book, The Good Man Jesus [...]

Kick-Ass kicks the c-word into the mainstream | David Cox

Chloe Moretz's hit-girl has inadvertently dispatched our last [...]

Let Joss Whedon direct The Avengers | Ben Child

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Whedon knows his [...]