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Our contributor Philip Watson selects his entertainment highlights of the year

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

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What lies beneath: A Kaleidoscopic view of the world

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Hope springs eternal, even in Smith’s bleak, cautionary tale

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Fertile tradition of retelling epic poems of Homer is revived

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Books for the beach this summer

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Book review: Hot Milk

Book review: The Mark and the Void

READERS may well have found the novel that captures the spirit of Ireland’s post-Celtic Tiger recession in Paul Murray’s The Mark and the Void, set in Dublin two years after “the collapse of Lehman Brothers finally ignited the bonfire that was the Irish economy”.

Sat, 18 Jul, 2015

Chronicler of life in China now has an audience in the West

Frog

Sat, 13 Dec, 2014

The David Foster Wallace Reader

David Foster Wallace

Sat, 13 Dec, 2014

Book: How to be both

Ali Smith

Sun, 28 Sep, 2014

Delightful prose

Carnival

Sat, 21 Sep, 2013

A wonderfully readable ramble through literature

Artful

Sat, 06 Jul, 2013

Diversions make Infatuations a book to fall in love with

The Infatuations

Sat, 06 Apr, 2013

Changing faces of war

Toby’s Room

Sat, 15 Sep, 2012

Speaking truth to power: Chomksy’s learned subversion of US imperialism

Making the Future:Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

Sat, 28 Jul, 2012

Generous sampler of the greatness of John Updike

Higher Gossip

Sat, 16 Jun, 2012

First Thoughts

The Lewis Man

Sat, 18 Feb, 2012

Beginner's Pluck

Ben wrote short stories as a child. At university, he knew he wanted to be a writer.

Sat, 21 Jan, 2012

First thoughts

The Cat’s Table: A Novel. Michael OndaatjeJonathan Cape, £16.99. Kindel $3.22

Sat, 03 Sep, 2011

In the name of Noam, how can we forget the past?

Hopes and Propects

Sat, 17 Jul, 2010

Changing my mind

Zadie Smith

Sat, 03 Apr, 2010

Updike’s hymn to indomitable life

My Father’s Tears and other Stories

Mon, 21 Sep, 2009

Firm to sue Madonna over documentary fees

Madonna is being sued by a UK director and firms who claim she owes more than $300,000 (€229,000) for a TV special on her 2004 Reinvention world tour.

Fri, 22 Apr, 2005

Madonna sued by British director

A British director and production company have sued Madonna for failing to pay expenses racked up during the making of a television show, it emerged today.

Thu, 21 Apr, 2005

Jacobson favourite for Booker prize

Author Howard Jacobson was today picked out as an early favourite to win this year’s Booker Prize.

Sun, 18 Aug, 2002

Booker Prize candidates line up

Here is the short-list for the 2001 Booker Prize for Fiction::: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber, £16.

Wed, 19 Sep, 2001

UK's richest fiction prizewinner to be announced

The winner of the UK’s richest annual book award for fiction, The Orange Prize, will be announced at a ceremony tonight.

Tue, 05 Jun, 2001