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Thursday 8 January 2009

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Books

At Home in Turkey

At Home in Turkey, by Solvi dos Santos and Berrin Torolsan

Plagued by plagiarism

And Then There Was No One, by Gilbert Adair

Division and misrule

‘The 20th century was not kind to Pakistan’, Tariq Ali says in the first sentence of his latest book on his native land.

Arts

If you don’t mind — yeah, like you’ve any choice in the matter — what I thought I’d do for this New Year column is to do just enough TV for the editor not to want to sack me, then move swiftly on to the stuff my hardcore fans prefer, namely the rambling and shameless solipsism.

Wagner treat

Tristan und Isolde
Royal Festival Hall

Hänsel und Gretel second cast
Royal Opera House

Books

Conflicts of interest?

Land of Marvels, by Barry Unsworth

Slum-dwellers and high-flyers

Heliopolis, by James Scudamore

Style & Travel

Not just for Christmas

Matthew Dennison extols the virtues of a rare but distinguished breed

Latin lover

Colombia has Clemency Burton-Hill weak at the knees

Operation ‘Go Nuts’ is a success so far — but for how long?

Paul Wood says that Israel’s ‘shock and awe’ in Gaza caught Hamas off-guard and was a ferocious demonstration of willpower. But the Islamist organisation is far from finished

Paul Wood

Let India 2.0 rise from the ashes of Bombay

Elliot Wilson says that an energetic form of political activism — principally on the internet — is needed in India and there are encouraging signs on Facebook, MySpace and other sites

Elliot Wilson

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