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		<title>New survey of art fosters discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Cooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that giving a book the title &#8220;100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age&#8221; is a hostage to fortune. We lack the necessary perspective when it comes to judging what it is about our time that is most important or representative culture-wise, for which reason the work of drawing up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biography of Masaoka Shiki excels in the expanded details</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burleigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masaoka Shiki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haiku, the short Japanese poem now proliferating overseas, scarcely needs an introduction anymore. Its three great pillars, widely read even in translation, are the poets Matsuo Basho (1641-1694), its first creator, then Yosa Buson (1716-1784) and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), who renewed it. THE WINTER SUN SHINES IN: A Life of Masaoka Shiki, by Donald Keene. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two studies explore the Tudors, Scotland&#8217;s crown and a nonchalant union</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Tremlett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English history]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scottish history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tudors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The unhurried fashion in which James VI of Scotland ambled south toward London to claim his crown in 1603, stopping off to hunt along the way and arriving six weeks after Elizabeth I died, suggests there was nothing terribly dramatic about the event. The man who would be James I of England, the first Stuart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protagonist returns with the burdens of later life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. O'malley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roddy Doyle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In popular Irish mythology it&#8217;s often said that the seeds of the Celtic Tiger were sown shortly after Italia &#8217;90, when the country&#8217;s team reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup soccer tournament for the first time. THE GUTS, by Roddy Doyle. Jonathan Cape, 2013, 336 pp., £12.99 (hardcover) Halfway through &#8220;The Guts,&#8221; Jimmy Rabbitte&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impressive evocations of anxiety, claustrophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Holland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What if the long-term survival of the human race depended on thousands of Americans being relocated to a vast underground city, with giant TV screens broadcasting a desolate landscape outside and no one allowed to leave? SHIFT, by Hugh Howey. Arrow, 2013, 608 pp., $20.99 (paperback) That was the idea behind &#8220;Wool,&#8221; the series of [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-help books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The School of Life]]></category>

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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>Amateur sleuths pursue callous California killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mysteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thrillers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;You Only Live Twice&#8221; (1964), the 12th in Ian Fleming&#8217;s series of James Bond novels, a perplexed Tiger Tanaka, MI5&#8242;s Japanese secret police liaison, informs 007 he was unaware that ninjas still existed. JAPANTOWN, by Barry Lancet. Simon and Schuster, 2013, 416 pp., $25 (hardcover) STRAWBERRY YELLOW, by Naomi Hirahara. Prospect Park Books, 2013, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Kobayashi&#8217;s works sound as if written today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Mccarthy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese proletarian literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takiji Kobayashi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For most readers, Japanese literature may suggest romantic/erotic works by Nagai Kafu, elegantly classical and humorously or sinisterly &#8220;kinky&#8221; fiction by Tanizaki, or coolly stylish contemporary works by Haruki Murakami. For such readers, this volume will come as a shock — both refreshing and depressing. THE CRAB CANNERY SHIP, and Other Novels of Struggle, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the cat from ancient god to cuddly pal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Outnumbering dogs by roughly three to one worldwide, cats have been the world&#8217;s most popular pet for a long time, but right now, in particular, they seem to be enjoying a golden era — possibly their most golden since the days of ancient Egypt, 3,000 years ago, when they were worshipped as gods. Even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Winehouse and the so-called &#8217;27 Club&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dorian Lynskey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[27 Club']]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the acknowledgements section of his strange new group biography of six famous musicians who died at the age of 27, Howard Sounes writes about setting out &#8220;to see what, if anything, the 27 Club amounts to apart from a series of coincidental and tragic deaths.&#8221; That &#8220;if anything&#8221; would be tantalizing in an introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The murky past of Pope Francis: Is he really so humble?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh O'shaughnessy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirty War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember hearing the name of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in March, or any of his fellow Argentinian Jesuits when I was in Buenos Aires in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They seemed strangely silent in such harrowing times when the fundaments of decent civilization were being set at nought throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atwood is often lyrical, but ultimately indulgent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Cartwright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in Margaret Atwood&#8217;s science fiction trilogy, which started with &#8220;Oryx and Crake&#8221; and progressed to &#8220;The Year of the Flood.&#8221; The title of the third, MaddAddam, you will notice, is a palindrome. There is plenty of wordplay to come. MADDADDAM, by Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury, 2013, 416 pp., 18.99 (hardcover) This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching to define difficult, elusive concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burleigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroaki Sato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yugen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this book is exquisite, while the cover illustration is of something else, different yet just as exquisite. This is appropriate because the aesthetic concept that the book considers is not just beautiful, but elusive and difficult to define. SNOW IN A SILVER BOWL: A Quest for the World of Yugen, by Hiroaki [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amusing graphic novel about bipolar disorder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Cooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bipolar disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Forney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphic novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memoirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until she was 30, Ellen Forney, an award-winning Seattle-based artist, took her slightly unusual personality for granted. Her obsession with exercise, her impulsive sexuality, her bouts of ecstasy: she considered these things, however uncomfortable, a major part of who she was. After all, aren&#8217;t all creative types given to strange moods, to pulling all-nighters, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fascinating glimpse into world of hacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carole Cadwalladr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LulzSec]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is perhaps a little hard to remember now, but in 2010, there seemed to be a new global superpower. A superpower that acted in unorthodox ways, which was unaccountable and yet of the people, and that was above all nameless, faceless and, as it styled itself, Anonymous. WE ARE ANONYMOUS: Inside the Hacker World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masterful ode to Liverpool&#8217;s Shankly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Cottrell Boyce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liverpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liverpool Football Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Red Or Dead&#8221; is a masterpiece. David Peace already has a considerable reputation but this massive, painstaking account of the career of Bill Shankly towers above his previous work. It&#8217;s usual when praising a sports novel for critics to claim that &#8220;it&#8217;s not really about baseball/running/beach volleyball &#8212; the sport is a metaphor.&#8221; Make no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remarkable story of the independence, dedication of Isamu Noguchi&#8217;s mother</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/31/books/remarkable-story-of-the-independence-dedication-of-isamu-noguchis-mother/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=remarkable-story-of-the-independence-dedication-of-isamu-noguchis-mother</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Burleigh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isamu Noguchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonie Gilmour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many people, I like soft light and use lampshades of Japanese paper from the successful Akari series designed by the American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), certainly the artist&#8217;s greatest influence on individual lives, especially at home. Some of his own upbringing is described in this book, which tells the story of his mother. LEONIE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocking exposé of Britain&#8217;s police spies</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/24/books/shocking-expose-of-britains-police-spies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=shocking-expose-of-britains-police-spies</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carole Cadwalladr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[exposes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.K. secret police]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overexcitable publishers like to bandy around words such as &#8220;explosive&#8221; and &#8220;shocking&#8221; when trying to flog their books, even though generally you could substitute them for ones such as &#8220;mildly interesting.&#8221; UNDERCOVER: The True Story of Britain&#8217;s Secret Police, by Paul Lewis and Rob Evans. Faber and Faber, 2013, 352 pp., &#163;12.99 (paperback) Not with &#8220;Undercover,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s contribution to Japan&#8217;s defeat</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/24/books/chinas-contribution-to-japans-defeat/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chinas-contribution-to-japans-defeat</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sino-Japanese War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 14 million to 20 million Chinese died during this epic struggle of resistance against Japanese aggression in a war that produced a staggering 80 million to 100 million refugees. Despite the prolonged onslaught of Japan&#8217;s modern military machine for eight long years, a divided China, mostly on its own, put up a heroic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collection of American Zen koans for quiet contemplation</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/24/books/collection-of-american-zen-koans-for-quiet-contemplation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=collection-of-american-zen-koans-for-quiet-contemplation</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Zen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[koans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen Buddhism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American Zen Koan No. 96: A student once asked Zen teacher Steve Allen, &#8220;If you were given a wish-fulfilling jewel, what would you wish for?&#8221; ONE BIRD, ONE STONE: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, by Sean Murphy. Hampton Roads Publishing, 2013, 288 pp., &#036;17.95 (paperback) &#8220;To stop wishing,&#8221; replied Allen. Zen practice famously entails the unraveling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deft campus romance between aloof professor and one-time mentor</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/24/books/deft-campus-romance-between-aloof-professor-and-one-time-mentor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=deft-campus-romance-between-aloof-professor-and-one-time-mentor</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hephzibah Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance novels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Elizabeth Stone, the heroine of Grace McCleen&#8217;s incandescent second novel, is a classic campus contradiction: both quite brilliant and utterly clueless. Despite having a lauded book on Milton and a stack of learned articles to her name, her fellow human beings &#8212; indeed, her own self &#8212; remain a closed book. THE PROFESSOR OF [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzergerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. writers]]></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>Revisiting the works of director Takashi Miike</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/17/books/revisiting-the-works-of-director-takashi-miike/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=revisiting-the-works-of-director-takashi-miike</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takashi Miike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Takashi Miike is one of the few Japanese filmmakers now working, Takeshi Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki being two others, who enjoy a measure of recognition outside Japan&#8217;s insular film world. Though hardly a household name in Kansas, Miike has long been a favorite with the international Asian Extreme Cinema crowd, who first loved him for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burying the truth to survive in postwar, modern Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Cozy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese manga in translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is hardly necessary to note that comics and manga are capable of conveying just about anything. Philosophy? See Ryan Dunlavey and Fred Van Lente&#8217;s Action Philosophers series. Travel? Try Guy Delisle&#8217;s accounts of his sojourns in tourist hot spots such as Pyongyang and Shenzhen. Memoir? Yoshihiro Tatsumi&#8217;s &#8220;A Drifting Life&#8221; is a massive and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmissable response to George Orwell&#8217;s 1946 essay &#8216;Why I Write&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/17/books/unmissable-response-to-george-orwells-1946-essay-why-i-write/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=unmissable-response-to-george-orwells-1946-essay-why-i-write</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Kellaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[essay writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Orwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A slender, beautifully bound blue hardback showed up on my desk. Its pages were creamy, its typeface clear in a formal, old-fashioned way. Each page number was picked out in scarlet. It was a book to put Kindle out of business, so covetable that, I almost thought, it scarcely mattered what it contained. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New English translation of Dante an impressive feat</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/10/books/new-english-translation-of-dante-an-impressive-feat/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-english-translation-of-dante-an-impressive-feat</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Lezard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clive James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Comedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Poets can&#8217;t help themselves from translating Dante, even if they are only going to do small chunks, as Byron did, having a stab at Francesca of Rimini&#8217;s speech from the fifth canto of the &#8220;Inferno.&#8221; He approached it the most difficult way, rendering &#8220;verse for verse the episode in the same metre &#8230; I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evocative novel bridges Japan and China, past and present</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Mccarthy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese literature in translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noboru Tsujihara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That the Western world has lost interest in Japan, and particularly in Japanese literature, and is turning its attention more and more to the colossus across the sea (China, not America) is a constant plaint on the part of Japan specialists and translators. JASMINE, by Noboru Tsujihara, translated by Juliet W. Carpenter. Thames River Press, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three versions of the &#8216;good wife&#8217; in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Cozy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender roles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women in Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was unusual for a Japanese woman to aspire to be anything other than a &#8220;good wife and wise mother&#8221;— an aspiration so predominant that the Japanese for it, ryosai kenbo, is a set phrase in the language. THE JAPANESE FAMILY IN TRANSITION: From the Professional Housewife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The messy, chaotic real life of artists</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/03/books/the-messy-chaotic-real-life-of-artists/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-messy-chaotic-real-life-of-artists</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Cooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collected works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Malcolm]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, the New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, who knows enough about journalism to hardly ever give interviews herself, spoke to Katie Roiphe for the Paris Review. Except that she didn&#8217;t actually speak to her &#8212; or at least, not while Roiphe&#8217;s tape recorder was rolling. FORTY-ONE FALSE STARTS: Essays on Artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story of the modern Bonnie and Clyde</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/03/books/story-of-the-modern-bonnie-and-clyde/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=story-of-the-modern-bonnie-and-clyde</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bling Ring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Jo Sales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like all the best fabled morality tales this one begins in a walk-in wardrobe. The wardrobe belongs to Paris Hilton and the interlopers into that strange fantasy land are a pair of bored high school dropouts who have wandered here in search of adventure (and free designer stuff). THE BLING RING, by Nancy Jo Sales. [...]]]></description>
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