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Boys against girls

From Ernest Hemingway to Ian McEwan, novelist Eli Gottlieb picks the 10 best literary battles of the sexes
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Extract: Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu

An exclusive taste of the renowned author and screenwriter's novel, due in English translation next year
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Cover stories

Blog: Sam Jordison comes to some hasty conclusions about this year's Booker prize longlist
- More about the Booker prize

Digested read: The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

John Crace: 'I'm still down to my last six castles after having the French bitch to stay. But, hey, she gets the chop today'
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'Literary tragedy' of Bulwer-Lytton's dark and stormy night under debate

News: The great-great-great grandson of the much-maligned author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is to take part in a debate to defend his ancestor's writing, which is celebrated in a contest to find the first line to the worst possible novel
- Blog: Falling at the first hurdle
Comics: Bawdy Spanish update of Tintin pulled after pressure from estate

News: Graphic sex scenes in new Antonio Altarriba comic draw criticism from Hergé estate
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- Last written words
- Alex Larman,
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- Judging the Booker by its covers (again)
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- Poem of the week
- Carol Rumens,
- Aug 18 2008, 3:00pm,
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- You don't need adults to sex up children's literature
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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto

Review: Reconciliation by Benazir Bhutto
This book is testament to Benazir Bhutto's bravery says Mary Fitzgerald
Franz Kafka, party animal

Review: Excavating Kafka by James Hawes
Life wasn't really such a trial for the supposedly tortured artist, says his new biographer. Joanna Kavenna explains
- Blog: Nicholas Lezard on Kafka's guilty pleasures
Magic realism and blue-sky thinking

The latest graphic novels have everything - psychological complexity, masterly satire, out-of-this world artwork and no little dry humour
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Excavation of the Lower East Side

Richard Price: Real estate is violence. A neighbourhood has been a certain way and then somebody makes a cappuccino
'Mine's a pint'

As a teenager, Joseph O'Connor was so enthralled by the work of John McGahern he used to copy out his short stories. It taught him how to write
'He is the son of all of you'

Mahmoud Darwish, who died a week ago today, was one of the great Arab poets of modern times, writes Mourid Barghouti
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