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Dan Jacobson: A ‘demi-alien’ who shed many skins
John Sutherland pays tribute to novelist, critic and academic Dan Jacobson, who broke the literary mould.
English is, literally, going to pot
It’s not, like, acceptable that the language is being mangled for the sake of expediency. But whatever.
‘There’s cheap, green energy out there’
Mark Jaccard’s advice on climate change, the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the end of civilisation as we know it is: "Don’t panic." But he is not an out-of-touch…
Being beastly to Salman
By the time Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, <i>Fury</i>, was officially published in London on September 6, it had been murdered in the womb — assassinated by early reviews and…