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Jewish Book Week
Jewish Book Week
Thursday, 04 February 2010
It's not every literary festival which unites around a single idea. Jewish Book Week is an exception. Not that every one of the 130 speakers who appear on the podium at the Royal National Hotel between 27 February and 7 March will necessarily be Jewish.
Guests include the controversialist Tariq Ali, Oxford professor of maths and freshly anointed OBE Marcus du Sautoy, historian Niall Ferguson, children's writer Anne Fine, novelists Will Self and Jonathan Safran Foer, the author of the sublime Everything Is Illuminated, writer and shrink Oliver James, Diana's divorce lawyer Anthony Julius, Albie Sachs and Jonathan Sacks, and the ennobled professor of fertility Robert Winston. Topics offered for discussion range from football and queer theory to the Jewish revival in Poland and peace in the Middle East. And much much more. Book online.
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I.S.S. review - sci-fi with a sting in the tail
The imperilled space station isn't the worst place to be
Album: St Vincent - All Born Screaming
Annie Clark transcends indie’s average leanings
Eye to Eye: Homage to Ernst Scheidegger, MASI Lugano review - era-defining artist portraits
One of Switzerland's greatest photographers celebrated with a major retrospective
Christian Pierre La Marca, Yaman Okur, St Martin-in-The-Fields review - engagingly subversive pairing falls short
A collaboration between a cellist and a breakdancer doesn't achieve lift off
That They May Face The Rising Sun review - lyrical adaptation of John McGahern's novel
Pat Collins extracts the magic of country life in the west of Ireland in his third feature film
Album: Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
Longing, love and longevity as the duo resolutely refuse retirement
Ridout, Włoszczowska, Crawford, Lai, Posner, Wigmore Hall review - electrifying teamwork
High-voltage Mozart and Schoenberg, blended Brahms, in a fascinating programme
Stephen review - a breathtakingly good first feature by a multi-media artist
Melanie Manchot's debut is strikingly intelligent and compelling
Album: Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
Tuareg rockers are on fiery form
Blue Lights Series 2, BBC One review - still our best cop show despite a slacker structure
The engaging Belfast cops are less tightly focused this time around
DVD/Blu-Ray: Priscilla
The disc extras smartly contextualise Sofia Coppola's eighth feature
Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review - a view from the boundaries
Enjoyable journey through the byways of how lines on maps have shaped the modern world
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