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Murakami in chiaroscuro
The Japanese writer's 13th novel is not intended to be read so much as to be performed in the theatre of the reader's mind
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Weaving a life of love and death in London
The 1920s trial of Thompson-Bywaters is the subject of Sarah Waters' new book
Enlightenment, lost and found
S Frederick Starr's treatise on the history of Central Asia chronicles the lives of some of the world's greatest intellects
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Lords of financial crises
Money and Tough Love describes the IMF's methods of functioning in various situations, but there is never a zoom into details
Neel Mukherjee's novel in Booker Prize shortlist
The other nominees as Richard Flanagan, Howard Jacobson, Joshua Ferris, Ali Smith and Karen Joy Fowler
Chin Refugees: Life is elsewhere
Shivani Dass' photo-essay poignantly captures the world of the persecuted Chin refugees of Burma in a remote Delhi village
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Leaving privacy on the table
The book's objective is to reveal secrets about how Las Vegas casinos, notably those owned by Caesars Entertainment, collect and use data that customers drop when they visit
Death and taxes
Most developing states in Asia, Africa, and South America continue to exist by virtue of tightly policed borders. We are, as the legions of "illegal" immigrants testify, unwilling prisoners of our sta
Golden opportunities for war
The obsession with gold never really went away, for "movements in the price of gold may well suggest that investors, in their lack of faith in paper money, have informally adopted one"
Book review: Historic Temples in Pakistan by Reema Abbasi and Madiha Aijaz
Reema Abbasi and Madiha Aijaz's magnificent photo-essay profiles the core of Pakistan's millennia-old Hindu heritage - its temples - and makes a strong case for keeping pluralism alive in the 'Fortres
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Seoul survivors
The first third of The Birth of Korean Cool - probably the best part - reads like an owner's manual of how to be Korean