Person: Joyce Carol Oates

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Let’s twist again like we did last summer

I’m showing my age, but does anybody remember Chubby Checker? Ah, you do. No, not the Welsh prop forward from the 1970s.

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War on fighting talk - why the battlefield rhetoric around cancer is insensitive and unhelpful

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The man who dressed Marilyn

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Repulsive, compelling

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Author Gore Vidal dies at 86

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Irish authors McCann, Toibin, Trevor on Impac shortlist

The world of a widow

JP O’Malley speaks to one of the most prolific writers of the last 50 years about her latest work, an honest account of becoming a widow ... and marrying again.

Sat, 26 Mar, 2011

Watts lands Monroe role

Naomi Watts is to play Marilyn Monroe in new movie 'Blonde'.

Fri, 14 May, 2010

Uni killer bought ammunition on eBay

Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui went on eBay less than a month before the massacre to buy ammunition clips for one of the two handguns he used in the rampage.

Sun, 22 Apr, 2007

Secrecy and speculation surround Nobel prizes

A Finn who helped mediate peace in Indonesia is tipped to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, while bookmakers favour a Turkish novelist for the literature award.

Fri, 29 Sep, 2006

Irish novelist nominated for fiction award

An Irish novelist has been nominated for this year's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction.

Mon, 14 Mar, 2005

Orange Prize longlist features past winner Helen Dunmore

Former winner Helen Dunmore is among the contenders for this year's UK Orange Prize For Fiction.

Mon, 18 Mar, 2002