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Books & arts At sea with Einstein Tim Thwaites 16 December 2011 Tim Thwaites reviews an oblique introduction to one of the great figures of the twentieth century Books & arts Sameness, likeness and match Iain Topliss 15 December 2011 Iain Topliss looks at why we don’t – and shouldn’t – speak the same language, and how Russian has no single word for blue Books & arts Dissolving borders Sylvia Lawson 15 December 2011 Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson Books & arts The real thing Richard Johnstone 2 December 2011 Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

Books & arts The diplomat Geoffrey Barker 24 October 2011 Geoffrey Barker reviews Philip Flood’s memoir of a career in the diplomatic service and as an agency head From the archive “I feared I would never be able to write a book again” Geoff Wilkes 20 October 2011 A bestselling author in the early thirties, Irmgard Keun left Nazi Germany in 1936 only to return during the war Books & arts In a bubble on the web Jason Wilson 12 October 2011 What happens when the internet finds out what we like, asks Jason Wilson Books & arts From the ashes Tom Griffiths 12 October 2011 Books | Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly

Essays & reportage On reading Mark McKenna’s biography of Manning Clark Nicholas Gruen 25 August 2011 Manning Clark went on a grand quest, writes Nicholas Gruen. But perhaps it was the journey rather than the arrival that mattered Books & arts Started low and finished high Richard Johnstone 24 August 2011 Books | Richard Johnstone considers the lobster Books & arts Caught again by Catch-22 Brian McFarlane 22 August 2011 On its fiftieth anniversary Brian McFarlane rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel Books & arts The madness industry Brett Evans 17 August 2011 Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida. Brett Evans reviews his new book