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Thursday 16 October 2008

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Books

Love lies bleeding

Andrew Taylor reviews the fourth novel in Susan Hill’s crime series

Great expectations dashed

Origins: A Memoir, by Amin Maalouf, translated by Catherine Temerson

Life & Letters

Allan Massies dips into Brideshead Revisited

For old times’ sake

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros Story, by Richard Schickel and George Perry

Arts

Silence in the air

Kate Chisholm on the latest radio offerings

Treading carefully

Stephen Fry in America (BBC1); Harry & Paul (BBC2, Monday); The Story of the Guitar (BBC1, Sunday); Meebox (BBC4)

Books

First knight and his lady

A Strange, Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families, by Michael Holroyd

Style & Travel

Classics of the subcontinent

Exuberant displays of wealth give a hint of India’s future, says Charlotte Metcalf

Oh, Kolkata!

The real adventure of India is to be found in the cities, writes A.A. Gill

Brown must stop sounding like a sore winner

The Prime Minister has triumphed for now with his grand rescue plan, says Irwin Stelzer. But that is no reason to blame the crisis on America. It may be a reason for an early election

Irwin Stelzer

As Brown poses as FDR, look ahead to a very new capitalism

Charles Leadbeater, the acclaimed innovator and new media analyst, predicts a transformed landscape: a new ‘networked’ capitalism in which the state plays a part but cannot pick winners — a system that is chastened, subdued and fraught with social danger

Charles Leadbeater

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