Information in restricted public space

AUGUST 1 Perhaps the most decisive battle between Malaysias two coalitions is being fought in the information arena, and not in by-elections or in parliament. As in most countries, ownership of the mass media affects the level of press freedom greatly. But when draconian laws are also in place strangling information flow, as in Malaysia, then ...

The Collected Short Stories of Lydia Davis, By Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, now 63 and professor of creative writing at the State University of New York at Albany, has been publishing short fiction for more than three decades. Ample time, then, for a reputation to take hold. And so it has in the US, where Davis is often called a deft, if curious, writer, practitioner of an obtuse, super-short fictive mode of her own invention.

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The story, which begins in the early 1920s, concerns the race to the finish line between two contenders attempting to invent a device that will "transmit moving pictures electronically through the air and then reassemble them at great distances, all in a fraction of a second."

Interview: Andrew O' Hagan, novelist

Marilyn Monroe. The Manhattan literary set of the 1950s. A white Maltese terrier called Maf. These are hardly, you might think, predictable ingredients of an autobiographical

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