Recently added articles from The Independent on Sunday (London, England):
This time it's personal
Dec 06, 2009; LESLEY MCDOWELL ... A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? ***** By SimonSchama Bodley Head Pounds 16.99 First published to accompany his 2000 TV series of the same name,this initial volume in a trilogy about the history of Britainconfirms Simon Schama's status as one of the world's ...
Looking for a fight
Dec 06, 2009; Lisa Hilton ... History First came the doom-and-gloom pillaging - then the ragingbattle between wainscotting and marble History feels urgent again. Perhaps it's the new decade, perhapsit's the intense political and economic challenges of the last, buthistory has cast off its donnish tweeds and ...
'We're not all shop keepers, you know'
Dec 06, 2009; NICK DUERDEN ... He's the Punjabi-Sikh from Hounslow who speaks like Hugh Grantand gave up medicine to become an R&B sensation. But now that JaySean is the highest-selling British male artist in America sinceElton John, can his success really eradicate racial stereotyping? At seven o'clock on a ...
The big picture
Dec 06, 2009; Charles Darwent ... Art From Darwin to Warhol, Van Gogh to Blake, these fabuloustomes chart the progression of life itself How big do stockings run? I ask only because this year's must-have Christmas art book is XXL and then some: the magnificent, six-volume Vincent van Gogh: The Letters (Thames & ...
Things go bump in the night
Dec 06, 2009; Sue Gaisford ... Audio Ghost stories and thrillers make for good listening This season delivers a bumper crop of excellent thrillers. InWilliam Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms (Whole Story Audio, 24.46),Adam Kindred, wanted for a gruesome murder of which he is innocent,goes to ground in London. He ...
A war of words
Dec 06, 2009; Joy Lo Dico ... Biographies All manner of conflict lurks in these sketches oflarger-than-life personas from Dame Vera to Floyd The 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War hashelped along that staple of historical publishing, the "Hitlerindustry". Among the many books that have ...
And now for the sauce...
Dec 06, 2009; Skye Gyngell ... Home-made or dried, nothing beats a warming bowl of pasta -especially with the toppings Skye Gyngell has in store ... Pasta almost always satisfies me - I often eat it at home after along day at work when I need to be enveloped in somethingcomforting. At work, we make pasta ...
An offer you can't refuse
Dec 06, 2009; TOBY YOUNG ... 'Godfather' gags are the only thing out of place at Mennula, aSicilian that's authentic in (almost) every way When I told my friend we would be meeting at a Sicilianrestaurant, he made the obvious gag: "I'll be disappointed if thereisn't a gun taped to the back of the ...
Is there any way back for Chris Langham?
Dec 06, 2009; James Hanning ... Like everyone else, James Hanning was shocked when the star oftelevision's 'The Thick of It' was convicted of downloading imagesof child abuse. Despite the actor's protestations of innocence,Hanning, like many, thought that where there was smoke there must befire. But the more he ...
Have you been good this year?
Dec 06, 2009; BRIAN LOGAN ... Twelve months ago, he was half of a Perrier Award-winning comedyduo. Today, Kim Noble is accused of exploiting his mental illness tocreate one of the most shocking stand-up shows ever When I went to see the comedian Jon Richardson at the EdinburghFringe this year, he had just ...
Jane Campion & Kerry Fox
Dec 06, 2009; RHIANNON HARRIES ... How we met 'Doing those projects can be painful. Kerry would bakecakes or bring cookies to cheer us up' Kerry Fox 43 is an award-winning actress from New Zealand best known for herroles in Jane Campion's 'An Angel at My Table', Danny Boyle's'Shallow Grave' and Patrice ...
On my mind
Dec 06, 2009; Rhiannon Harries ... Look closely at boarding schools and 'Cracks' in the fantasy soonappear, says Rhiannon Harries Trying to explain your home nation's cultural peculiarities to anoutsider is the best way to gauge the degree of their absurdity, asI found out the other day when a French friend asked ...
Rob Hann
Dec 06, 2009; ... Portfolio Week 4 of 4 "When people see this for the first time, they always ask whetherI've manipulated it," says Hann of this image, taken in west Texas,as part of his "Deserted States of America" series. "It's actually apiece ...
Flip chart
Dec 06, 2009; ... Day of the Ninja is upon us. But, ah, you are too slow. Ithappened yesterday. That is because you are not trained to be ...
Word cloud
Dec 06, 2009; ... There is the 18-year-old and the hooker, and all poor old SilvioBerlusconi can think about ...
CONCISE CROSSWORD No.1034
Dec 06, 2009; ... SO FOR 9Dn By Mass The entries marked "?" are linked and suggested by the uncluedanswer(s) forming the puzzle's title Across 1 ? (6) 4 Place of worship (6) 8 Broker (5) 9 ? (7) 10 Purplish red (7) 11 Change (5) 12 Inflexible ...
BEELZEBUB CROSSWORDNo.1033
Dec 06, 2009; ... ACROSS 1 One steals smack at sea, with quantity of herring around (9) 7 Care to spurn inexpert computer language (3) 10 Unhinge local crackpot with drug (12) 11 Wild ox? There's one getting on, avoiding tail (4) 13 Fuelling device providing energy for lunar ...
The Right Hand of the Sun: A Novel
Dec 06, 2009; LESLEY MCDOWELL ... *** By Anita Mason John Murray Pounds 9.99 I'm never quite sure whether that subtitle, "A Novel", is meantto function as qualifier, explanation or apology. In this case,perhaps, Anita Mason was worried we might take her historicalaccount of Spain's bloody and brutal ...
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
Dec 06, 2009; LESLEY MCDOWELL ... **** By John Kenneth Galbraith Penguin Pounds 7.99 There's quite a lot of fun to be had in mapping our currenteconomic woes on to John Kenneth Galbraith's interpretations andcriticisms of capitalism, first published in 2004. One of the many "frauds" that he says capitalism ...
The Passport
Dec 06, 2009; LESLEY MCDOWELL ... ***** By Herta Muller Serpent's Tail Pounds 7.99 Herta Mller provides a masterclass here in sparse, clear prose,and conveys the bleakness of humanity, with the occasional touch ofdark, bitter magic - fully earning her Nobel Prize for literaturethis year. Windisch is a miller ...
