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This week’s Twitter highlights

by Nicholas Laughlin on July 31, 2010

• Gabriel García Márquez wins the Cbn Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Award for philosophical literature: http://bit.ly/cQahU7 • Jean Soublin reviews a new French translation of Olive Senior’s short fiction, Zigzag et autres nouvelles, in Le Monde: http://bit.ly/dnS6KY • Andrea Levy’s novel The Long Song (set in 19th-century #Jamaica) longlisted for the #Booker Prize: http://bit.ly/ddGMg1 • [...]

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“A tale of my making”

by Nicholas Laughlin on July 28, 2010

Andrea Levy Go to any shelf that groans under a weight of books and there, wrapped in leather and stamped in gold, will be volumes whose contents will find you meandering through the puff and twaddle of some white lady’s mind. You will see trees aplenty, birds of every hue and oh, a hot, hot [...]

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