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An interview with Gore Vidal to coincide with his appearance at this year’s Brighton Festival.  Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his ‘vicious’ mother and rumours of a secret love child appeared in The New Review (25 May 2008).

Commentary article that appeared in the The Guardian today in which Scotsman On Sunday books editor Stuart Kelly considers the “cultural cringe” inherent in the Scottish literary community … and the world.

Jon Henley and a handful of European writers and thinkers contemplate the demise of the semicolon in an amusing feature, The end of the line? (The Guardian, 4 April 2008).

Deborah Jones examines the impact of the musical on theatre worldwide in her Weekend Australian article The genius of Broadway (15 March 2008).

Humour and astuteness care of The Simpsons.

Today the Scotsman reviews Laurence Bergreen’s detailed book, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, a dissection of the accounts of 13th century China recorded by history’s most famous adventurer.

Pointe taken is a cheeky peek into the life of dance legend Sylvie Guillem, which appeared in Australian Vogue (December 2007).

Jay Rayner considers why contemporary playwrights are mostly drawn to the left in the The Observer today (11 November 2007), asking Why is nobody doing the right thing?

Wayang shadow puppets come to London’s Festival Hall and The Guardian celebrates their arrival with this article in today’s edition.

Today Louise Jury of the Evening Standard writes about the Bolshoi Ballet, which has been rejuvenated with the help of Boris Yeltsin and high-profile Russian patrons.