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See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse.client.support@ft.com (Client Support)Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:21:32 +0000Newspapers60http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/arts/books(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/83d2bf12-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/83d2bf12-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlFour new books show the startling extent to which images of the next world still both reflect and shape life in this one Heaven and the AfterlifePocket Guide to the AfterlifeWho Goes There?The Garden and the Fire Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:20:07 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/391bab46-d7c5-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/391bab46-d7c5-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.htmlThis enjoyably navigated prequel by Joe Gores traces investigator Sam Spade's career before it reached the case featured in Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon'Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/1f3d4b44-d7c5-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1f3d4b44-d7c5-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.htmlIn Dimitri Verhulst's fable of enduring passion, a woman in a Flemish village mourns the death of her composer husband, finds solace in a dog and waits 20 years to make a cello for her dead loverMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/9711a6f6-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9711a6f6-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlNobel Prize winner Herta Müller's first novel is a poetic chronicle of one family's desperate attempt to flee Ceausescu's RomaniaMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/94c6b9f4-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/94c6b9f4-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlCarlos Fuentes' tales of domestic iconoclasm, father-child relationships and civil unrest provide an outraged commentary on Mexico's institutionalised corruptionMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/927b91ec-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/927b91ec-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlMasha Gessen pursues a cancer-inducing gene's lethal path through her ancestry in this courageous, lucidly researched memoirMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/9014d314-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9014d314-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlVladimir Nabokov's last and previously unpublished novel – an ingenious story about confronting death – is further proof of the Russian writer's literary talentMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/8dbee79e-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8dbee79e-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlNobel laureate José Saramago writes with fondness about his rural upbringing in his first memoir, which bears many of the hallmarks of his fiction and gives clues to its originsMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/8b45f6a6-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8b45f6a6-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlThe half-dozen 'literary' pieces in this collection by Zadie Smith are oddly incontestable, but the three essays set to memorialise her father and a stack of brief and semi-indulgent film reviews are the coreMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/88b0fec2-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/88b0fec2-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlJohn Evans provides commentary on the intriguing and infuriating diaries of composer Benjamin Britten written during his precocious adolescence, writes Andrew Clark Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/5be351c4-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5be351c4-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlWith lucid prose and sensible policy prescriptions, Tim Jackson's challenge to mainstream economic thinking is both accessible and robustly arguedMon, 23 Nov 2009 03:41:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/b983a7a2-d49b-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b983a7a2-d49b-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.htmlThis craft book can be judged a success for prompting a desire in its readers to follow its instructions and create their own masterpiecesSat, 21 Nov 2009 00:54:00 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/23241ab2-d56d-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/23241ab2-d56d-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlWhat am I most proud of writing? 'Imaginary Life'. If you're lucky as a writer you get one 'gift' book where you break through into a different kind of writingFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:25:55 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/864a873e-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/864a873e-d568-11de-81ee-00144feabdc0.htmlMark Mazower offers a scholarly review of the origins of the UN and how it has failed to live up to the heady expectations raised by its founding fathersFri, 20 Nov 2009 23:25:55 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/79a0da6e-d2d5-11de-af63-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbookshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/79a0da6e-d2d5-11de-af63-00144feabdc0.htmlFrench-Senegalese author Marie NDiaye, winner of the Prix Goncourt, seemed a model of integration, but her strong views of a 'hideous' country have riled politicians Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:57 +0000