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Friday 5 December 2008

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A master at work

Sam Leith on Richard Price's new novel

Dirty diggers

The Buddha & Dr Fuhrer, by Charles Allen

Saints and sinners

With the publication of their Christmas cookery books, Nigella, Jamie, Delia and Gordon all have a brand image, or a halo, to polish.

The view from the middle lane

The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics — Off the Record, by Hugo Young, edited by Ion Trewin

At Home in Turkey

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

Arts

Flights of fancy

Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Royal Opera

Der fliegende Holländer
Barbican

Crumblies’ gig

It all started earlier this year, when my friend Chris managed to get four tickets for the first Leonard Cohen concerts at the O2.

Books

Humph swings

Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley, by Humphrey Lyttleton

A rose-tinted view of the bay

The Ancient Shore, by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller

Style & Travel

Play time

Living in an all-male household (husband, two sons, cosseted cat) has tended to colour my perception of technology.

Woman’s hour

Of late I have had a number of men getting in touch with me to ask which watches to buy their wives.

The global force behind Mumbai’s agony is in our midst

Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi say that LET — the Army of the Righteous — is a worldwide Islamist organisation which is well-established in Britain. The Mumbai atrocities are further proof that the march of Islamic extremism is the central fact of our time

Stephen Schwartz

‘They treat me more like a devil than a god’

Lloyd Evans finds that Bernard-Henri Lévy is not the ageing French dandy of caricature but a serious intellectual with views on everything from Barack Obama to the Muslim veil

Lloyd Evans

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