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Editors' picks
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An exclusive short story by Aravind Adiga who won the Booker prize for 'The White Tiger' -
As the Olympic torch passes from China to the UK, we're launching a grand exchange of our own, with a relay of short stories inspired by writers' journeys between the two countries. Hari Kunzru who travelled to China earlier this year, kicks off with the tale of an uncomfortably close encounter with pandas
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Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay write a new addition to the tale each week
Latest videos
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Video: Linton Kwesi Johnson performs If I Woz A Tap Natch Poet (2min 41sec)
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Video: Michael Rosen: These are the Hands (1min 25sec)
Most recent
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5 Jan 2009:
An excerpt from the winner of this year's Costa biography award
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3 Jan 2009:
The stillness of the city floats on
Unending movement ... -
2 Jan 2009:
A new poem by Sean O'Brien, written in response to the latest phase of conflict between Israel and Hamas
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2 Jan 2009:
Israeli air strikes prompt Sean O'Brien to write new poem, Katyusha, Katyusha
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28 Dec 2008:
Two women caught up in a violent street riot take shelter in an abandoned shop. A short story by the Orange Prize-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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20 Dec 2008:
Hate Christmas? Rhiannon Lassiter, author of teenage favourites Bad Blood and Hex, has a festive short story of revenge
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13 Dec 2008:
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay
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13 Dec 2008:
this morning
a cruel curve of black-patent beak ... -
The celebrated Jamican dub poet performs a very wry statement of ambition at Brixton library
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6 Dec 2008:
The Saturday poem: The moon was coming up one side of the river/ and the sun was setting on the other...
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Michael Rosen, the children's laureate, is joined by celebrities including Sir Michael Parkinson, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Harry Hill to read his poem marking 60 years of the NHS
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22 Nov 2008:
In the children's record of the Happy Prince,
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16 Nov 2008:
Geoff Dyer: An extract from the drug culture chronicler's new novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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15 Nov 2008:
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay
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15 Nov 2008:
Under the jacarandas,
The pigeons and the gulls...
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