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		<title>Six great thinkers&#8217; &#8216;lessons&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is a career that none of us chose. The rich and credulous hire life coaches to flatter them. Others who crave enlightenment can sign on to the School of Life set up by entrepreneurial egghead Alain de Botton. LIFE LESSONS FROM &#8230; Bergson, Byron, Freud, Hobbes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche. Macmillan, 2013, £6.99 each (paperback) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American fiction&#8217;s drunken masters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee Williams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rivers run through Olivia Laing&#8217;s writing &#8212; sometimes the real thing, either narrow and innocuous like a backwoods creek or mile-wide like the Mississippi; occasionally streams of memory that flow backwards, and sometimes gushers of tears; always a steady current of liquidly eloquent words. THE TRIP TO ECHO SPRING: Why Writers Drink, by Olivia Laing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infernal prose flows again from Dan Brown&#8217;s brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dan Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Langdon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think that Dan Brown was merely bad. Now, after reading the latest version of the apocalyptic thriller he rewrites every few years, I suspect he might be mad as well. ]]></description>
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		<title>Allowing Nijinsky&#8217;s ballet to tell his life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballets Russes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaslav Nijinsky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How can we separate the dancer from the dance? Vaslav Nijinsky&#8217;s art was a vanishing act, and his mystique depended on gestures that lasted only a second, like his leap through a window in &#8220;The Spectre of a Rose,&#8221; or the slight but scandalous quivering of his thighs that mimed ejaculation when, performing Debussy&#8217;s &#8220;Afternoon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Painfully honest, artful homage to wife&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Barnes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This little book has a purpose that is weightily monumental: It&#8217;s a Taj Mahal made of paper, not white marble. LEVELS OF LIFE, by Julian Barnes. Cape, 2013, 128 pp., ￡10.99 (hardcover) Shah Jahan built the minareted tomb for his third wife when she died after delivering their 14th child; Barnes, who is uxorious &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The myth of human progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["The more I see of men," said Madame de Stael, "the more I like dogs." Always excepting the pit bulls and Rottweilers that slather and snap at the heels of yobs, I agree with her. ]]></description>
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		<title>Painting a vivid picture of Jane Austen&#8217;s life through the details of humdrum household objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jane Austen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE REAL JANE AUSTEN: A Life in Small Things, by Paula Byrne. Harper, 2013, 400 pp., $29.99 (hardcover) Jane Austen may be too likable or lovable for her own good. &#8220;Pride and Prejudice,&#8221; which celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, was recently elected the U.K.&#8217;s favorite novel, and Austen herself is in danger of becoming everyone&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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