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Literary Icons Rushdie and le Carré End 15-Year Feud

Nobody fights better than writers, so it’s a little sad that novelists Salman Rushdie and John le Carré have agreed to stop hating each other.

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 READ MORE



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Philip Roth Quietly Calls it Quits

The glum-faced author announced what appears to be his retirement in a “little-noticed” interview with a French magazine. “To tell you the truth, I’m done,” Roth told Les Inrocks in October, adding that he has not written anything in three years.

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Jabari Asim: Paying Homage Isn’t Plagiarism

Let’s cut authors like Ian McEwan a little slack and allow him to “sample” from other works in the same way that every other artist does.

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‘Scanning’ the Darkness of Our War on Drugs

In this summer’s most talked-about movie, “A Scanner Darkly,” Keanu Reeves stars as an undercover narcotics agent losing his grip on reality in an America that has lost the war on drugs. True, the film is a warning call, but might it also inadvertently channel us toward the very dystopia it is warning against?
This article ran in May, but we’re trotting it out again because the movie just hit theaters this week.

Posted on May 14, 2006 READ MORE  |  26 COMMENTS


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