Entertainment | Books
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Friday May 25
Home as a journey
Carole King takes a long, hard look at her past while being gently protective of the fascinating, but often destructive, people in her life
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Friday May 25
The odd couple
As the world reels from recession, a jobless American man in search of his roots falls in love with a sceptical Irish woman
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Friday May 25
Politicians' bully
Co-authored by one of their critics, this account of the Murdoch affair is a gripping read
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Friday May 25
Finding life in one's dreams
The parallel worlds of a person and her conscience in Nisha Sanjeev's debut novel
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Friday May 18
The maker of a giant
Saad Al Barrak looks back at an adventure that included helming unprecedented corporate successes and facing the painful reality of recession
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Friday May 18
Pleasure and pain
As clear-eyed and truthful as it gets about families and marriage
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Friday May 18
Old whine in a new bottle
Rather than any new analysis, the author presents the blindingly obvious, again
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Thursday May 17
Online library delivers books to your Dubai doorstep
New rental service offers over 8,000 titles at zero cost and the best thing about it is that there are no due dates or late charges
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Friday May 11
Life-changing adventure
After several insightful accounts of people she met in her travels, Jean Sasson turns the gaze on herself
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Friday May 11
Layers of imagination
Travelling deep into 8-year-old Max's world, one discovers that an afflicted mind hides far more than it reveals
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Friday May 11
Spoken words as an instinct
Making an argument for language as moulded by the environment
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Thursday May 10
eBooks of the week: The Newlyweds and more
Go paperback-free with our pick of the top books to download...
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Wednesday May 9
'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak told truth about children
Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood
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Friday May 4
Larger-than-life leader
A portrait of Saladin highlights why he remains relevant today, and worthy of emulation
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Friday May 4
Gleaming plot, ugly subplots
China's phenomenal economic success has not soothed discontent or left absurdities behind
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Friday May 4
Palestine on her mind
Susan Abulhawa returned from Jenin in 2002 — shocked and humbled. And soon she found a new calling
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Friday May 4
A tale of love and loss
A displaced family's plight is a lesson in Palestinian history
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Friday May 4
Insight into Arab culture
Twenty stellar individuals challenge the Western stereotype of women in the Middle East
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Friday Apr 27
A muted firebrand
Enmeshed in fighting apartheid from early on, Peter Hain had radical veins. As a British politician he was too frightened to show them
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Friday Apr 27
Cloak of calm
Iain Banks succeeds in making gangster-run Stonemouth believable, choosing to focus on the gently enforced, no-questions-asked order
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Friday Apr 27
Bold but disappointing
Proposal of inclusive political institutions for a prosperous economy fails to explain ‘inclusive'
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Friday Apr 27
‘Don’t let the warlords win’
Dania El Kadi on the importance of leading a normal life even in times of flux
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Friday Apr 27
A poetic tribute to the UAE
Dubai-based poet Geeta Chhabra talks to Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary about her recently published coffee-table book An Indian Ode to the Emirates and what poetry means to her
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Thursday Apr 26
eBooks of the week: Joe Calico and more
Go paperback-free with our pick of the top books to download...
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Friday Apr 20
Many faces of a showman
James Brown's life and music intersected with some of the 20th century's most significant racial trends
Entertainment Editor's choice
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Shah Rukh Khan can learn from Salman
Why is it that Salman always succeeds in getting past controversies?
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My entertainment: Singer Shontelle
We talked movie icons and surprising music picks with the Bajan singer
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Michael Jackson's still Bad
Michael Jackson's Bad returns this September with new music and never-before-seen concert video
