Person: Nabokov

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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20 of the best books to delve into in 2020

From Colum McCann and Hilary Mantel to Nick Hornby and Rachael English, there are plenty interesting reads on the way over the next few months, writes Marjorie Brennan.

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Proof (if required) that goalkeepers are different breed

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Who will end up in exile after these Napoleonic battles?

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A question of taste - Nina Conti

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Your Monday morning catch-up

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“One of the sweetest we’ve ever won”

Reinterpretation of Taming of the Shrew is obedient to spirit of Shakespeare

TAMING is the operative word in The Taming of the Shrew, a play about the arranged marriage of Petruchio and Katherine. The original is set in Padua, a powerful city-state in Renaissance Italy. Petruchio lays it out baldly to his betrothed: “For I am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”

Mon, 05 Aug, 2013

A voice against silent treatment

There’s a lot of silence around this weekend.

Mon, 01 Jul, 2013

Beginner’s Pluck

Suzanne Joinson

Sat, 04 Aug, 2012

Monuments to truth

Saints and Sinners

Sat, 29 Jan, 2011

A tale of two halves

ANDREÏ MAKINE’S 11th novel is really two separate stories: one the tale of an emigré Russian author named Ivan Shutov, the other the titular life of an unknown man, Georgy Volsky, a wheelchair-bound occupant of a small room in a St Petersburg communal flat.

Sat, 06 Nov, 2010

Changing my mind

Zadie Smith

Sat, 03 Apr, 2010