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Greek debt crisis - it's all mathematics to me

Fri 17 Feb, AT 08:37 Michael Bywater

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World is a bible for our times

Star Trek and Doctor Who join forces in comic crossover

One-Minute Read Wed 15 Feb, AT 14:05

Assimilation2: Will the time traveller mash-up make a perfect match or unholy alliance?

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No slacking! In the new world order, it's strive or die

Thu 9 Feb, AT 14:00 Michael Bywater

Strivers hate the slackers and fantasists. What they don't realise is that WE hate THEM

Charles Dickens

It's right to mark Dickens's birthday but not to idolise him

Talking Point Tue 7 Feb, AT 11:57

Dickens was a great writer, but if children aren't reading him it's not the end of the world

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What Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is really selling

Fri 3 Feb, AT 16:04 Michael Bywater

When the last internet bubble burst it was all about debt. This time it's all about YOU

Jonathan Franzen

Franzen says ebooks are not compatible with justice

One-Minute Read Mon 30 Jan, AT 08:53

Printed books are 'hated by capitalists', says author, but serious readers prefer them

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Pure genius: If you want to understand Davos, start in 1785

Thu 26 Jan, AT 07:05 Michael Bywater

What a story of priests and corpses, of glamour and decay, can tell us about the world we live in now

Waterstones apostrophe

Grammar sticklers mourn 'Waterstones' apostrophe

Talking Point Fri 13 Jan, AT 14:28

The bookshop has the right to change its name, but some will always remember the apostrophe fondly

Spanking Sherlock: BBC gets the wrong end of the stick

Thu 12 Jan, AT 09:57 Michael Bywater

The kinky sex was a big mistake. For the genuine full-frontal Sherlock Holmes, read the stories

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There’s more to life than adultery in north London

Fri 6 Jan, AT 15:27 Michael Bywater

Contemporary novelists might be letting us down - but who wants to read about people just like us?

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