As his 12th novel comes out, the novelist admits fearing his decline as a writer and is still wounded by the critics, writes Stephen Moss.
Jane Goodall, who began her seminal work on the chimpanzees of Africa 50 years ago, is now touring the world with another important message.
Does the election of two British National Party members to the European Parliament signal the renewed rise of fascism?
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/ 17 February 2009
The ideas behind the theory of evolution have been scientific gospel for decades — and yet creationists refuse to go the way of the dinosaurs.
"Please put packages behind the wheelie bin. Don’t worry — they’re only foreign books."
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/ 19 January 2008
So the king is dead, the game over. Bobby Fischer — perhaps the greatest player in the history of chess, certainly the most charismatic and controversial — has died of kidney failure in his adoptive home, Iceland. But Fischer the chess genius died more than 30 years ago.
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/ 25 September 2007
Author Michelle Paver is becoming used to celebrity: interviews, book signings, author tours, writes Stephen Moss.
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/ 22 October 2004
The judges couldn’t bring themselves to discuss it, the tabloids couldn’t see beyond it. But there’s more going on in Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel than gay sex, he tells Stephen Moss.