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Spinning a good yarn

Shehan Karunatilaka talks cricket, drunks and Sri Lanka

Culture in an instant

Marisa Yiu and Eric Schuldenfrei's architectural book

Well-versed in modern poetry

Wong Leung Wo takes part in International Poetry Nights

Murder most monstrous

Paul French on how he 'solved' a 75-year-old cold case

That used to be US

Thomas Friedman on the state of America today

Rock 'n' roll is red

Jonathan Campbell on China's history of rock music

Bin and gone

Peter Bergen says Osama bin Laden lost America's 'longest war'

Murder in the Mid-Levels

Andrew Woodward's debut detective novel

A life less ordinary

Marvin Farkas' highs and lows in Hong Kong

The kids'll be alright

Travel guides for children

Developing a Chinese history

Developing a Chinese history

A grave new world?

Chan Koonchung's sci-fi novel on China's political climate

Boning up on Bhutan

Murray Gunn chats about his experiences in Bhutan

Consuming the planet

Chandran Nair on Asia's consumerist future

Two sides to every story

Julia Lovell takes a balanced look at the Opium War

War-torn memories

Jonathan Chamberlain talks about his new novel

Here come the girls

Maseena Ziegler answers questions on her new 'rich women' book

Double happiness

Mother-of-two Susan Conley talks about China and cancer

Stardust Memories

Forty years on, is there anything we still don't know about Bowie?

The Psychopath Test

Journey into the minds of the mad, from death squad leaders to battling CEOs.

Love and revolution

Deb Olin Unferth retraces her steps in South American war zones