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Well versed

(Wednesday 16 April 2008)

POEM OF THE WEEK: : Two for the price of one by Racker Donnelly.


Child of change

(Tuesday 15 April 2008)

INTERVIEW: The Star catches up with Chinese singer SA DING DING, whose music could finally put China on the global musical map.


CROSSING BARRIERS: Sa Ding Ding sings in Sanskrit, Mandarin, Tibetan and her own made-up language.

A very special 75th

(Tuesday 15 April 2008)

WHAT do you do when one of jazz's greatest and most influential guitarists passes his 75th birthday? One thing you certainly do is have a party and don't forget to invite the Blue Note sound engineers and all their equipment.


In the midst of a torrent of lies

(Monday 14 April 2008)

INTERVIEW: ROBERT FISK speaks to the Star about the hideous bloodshed and devious untruths that are hidden from the public view by those in positions of power.


EXPOSING THE LIES: Robert Fisk has reported on Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon.

Well versed

(Wednesday 09 April 2008)

Poem of the week: Business Breakfast by Adrian Green.


A visionary life

(Tuesday 08 April 2008)

JEFF SAWTELL looks back at the life of Jules Dassin, the legendary communist film-maker.


PASSION: Jules Dassin with his future wife Melina Mercouri in 1960.

Crime Fiction

(Tuesday 08 April 2008)

MAT COWARD reviews the latest selection of crime-themed novels.


A treasure revealed

(Tuesday 08 April 2008)

CHRIS SEARLE reviews a reissued historical treasure, Out of the Cool.


Ordinary art

(Monday 07 April 2008)

CHRISTINE LINDEY views a collection of paintings by the short-lived but influential Camden Town Group.


STREET SCENE: William Ratcliffe's Hampstead Garden Suburb looks at a north London community.

Science Fiction

(Monday 07 April 2008)

MAT COWARD reviews Swiftly by Adam Roberts and Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind.