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The long wait is over

Simon Schama enjoys James Salter’s new novel - but prefers his ‘perfect’ short stories. A review of ‘All That Is’ and ‘Collected Stories

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Community tensions

A short story collection set in a 1950s kibbutz. Rebecca Abrams reviews ‘Between Friends’, by Amos Oz

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From the mind’s eye

A tale that explores the instability of memory. Maria Crawford reviews ‘A Box Of Birds’, by Charles Fernyhough

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Back to school

A year of playground politics. Isabel Berwick reviews ‘The Hive’, by Gill Hornby

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Review of ‘She Rises’, by Kate Worsley; ‘How I Killed Margaret Thatcher’, by Anthony Cartwright; ‘Eleven Days’, by Stav Sherez; ‘Fifteen Digits’, by Nick Santora

The Monday Review

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A welcome contribution that signals the need for a deep debate about the direction of India’s economy

Perfectly formed

Lydia Davis wins the 2013 Man Booker International prize for fiction

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In brief

David Evans reviews ‘Petite Mort’, by Beatrice Hitchman

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Remade in Manhattan

An accomplished novel of how family history haunts one young woman’s life. George Pendle reviews ‘Constance’, by Patrick McGrath

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Hell is other people

This new blockbuster leaves us confused. AN Wilson reviews ‘Inferno’, by Dan Brown

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Review: Lionel Shriver’s ‘Big Brother’

The dilemmas we face when a loved one self-destructs, in a new novel based on Shriver’s real-life family. Review by William Leith

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Secrets and spies

Cold war adventures in Britain’s golden jet age. Ian Thomson reviews ‘Under the Radar’, by James Hamilton-Paterson

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