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PS, I Love You
Post-Valentine's Day, Jo Smee thinks that Cecelia Ahern's there's-life-after-death chick lit is just what we all need…

The future of reading?
Alex Marshall looks into the future and wonders if the Amazon Kindle will be a success...

Indra Sinha: Animal's People
Zahra Dharsi is impressed by the potency of this Booker-shortlisted novel...

Hoffman's Hunger
Olivia Varley-Winter tries to match head and tail of Leon de Winter’s answer to gastro-porn.

Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rachel Hovenden reviews Rajiv Chandrasekaran's award-winning reportage on bureaucratic mismanagement in Iraq's Green Zone...

The Welsh Girl: projectile linguistics
Jamie McKinstry is struck (metaphysically of course) by the talents of Peter Ho Davies...

The Everyday Activist: All aboard the bandwagon
Martin Dorset-Purkis is unimpressed by Michael Norton's anti-apathy handbook...

Borderlands
'Spineless Detective Makes Limpid Mystery.' Thrill-seeker Rumbidzai Maweni is not enamoured by Brian McGilloway's crime fiction debut...

And so said Christopher:
Chris Wright takes another look at the 'new atheist' publishing trend with Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great...

Did they have it so good?
Emma Bradfield is surprised by the 1950s with Peter Hennessy's socio-political history...

Preview: Two books from the Apple
Olivia Varley-Winter previews Grub by Elise Blackwell, and In the Meantime by Robin Lippincott...

Ragtime: a waltz across America
Ellie Murphy picks up E.L. Doctorow's celebrated classic, and goes around again...

The God Delusion: A Review
Chris Wright condemns Richard Dawkins’ popular work of atheist propaganda...

Holiday reading: The Vesuvius Club
Zahra Dharsi is tickled by an Edwardian secret agent in Mark Gatiss' razor-sharp comedy...

Kafka in Brontëland
Zahra Dharsi admires Tamar Yellin's cultural tour-de-force...