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News: David Gest claims to have collaborated with pop legend on album setting poems to music
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News: For many high-profile public figures a visit to the libel courts is akin to a trip to a casino
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Review: Leviathan by Philip Hoare
A superb book explores the world of the creatures that, from Moby-Dick on, have stood for the crazed extent of man's ambition says Rachel Cooke -
Review: Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
Stereotypical views of the master-slave relationship are exploded in a clever and satirical novel by a British-Nigerian writer says Stephanie Merritt
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This week's reviews and features
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Review: Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
Patrick McGrath finds amusing asides sit uneasily in a social history of madness in England -
Review: A Blessed Child by Linn Ullman
Louise Dean finds herself drawn into a melancholy story of love and betrayal
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Mary Beard is the classical world's most provocative figure. Now she's digging for dirt in the doomed city
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Audio
(11min 58sec):
Siri Hustvedt reads an excerpt from her new novel, The Sorrows of an American, and talks to Richard Lea about the real-life bereavement which informs the book
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Week one: John Mullan on the child narrator in Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
