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Clampdown on 'extreme manga' as Japan's censors sharpen knives
David McNeill: Controversial censorship law could cripple one of country's few growth industries.
'You're like Scrooge': Award-winning writer Jackie Kay presents her exclusive festive short story
Friendship is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you just want to be alone. And some of those times happen to be Christmas. The award-winning poet-novelist Jackie Kay presents 'Home-Alone Christmas', a festive short story written exclusively for 'The New Review'
Darwin: A Life in Poems, By Ruth Padel
It is not easy to take on a real-life figure whose own voice dominates as much as Darwin's does, but Ruth Padel is an excellent listener, and she knows when to intrude and re-make, and when to leave well alone, to produce a magisterial, yet close and touching portrait of the man in this series of poems.
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