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Festivals of significance: A writer’s view of literary festivals
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We hardly heard any mention of them 20 years ago, but today it seems that every country, every town, every little village has one: yes, a Starbucks. But I&rsquo...
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Tan Twan Eng
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The path not taken
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The movies all end the same way.The athlete whose journey we’d been following raises her hands in triumph at the finish line, the audience rises in a st...
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Andrea Filmer
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Timing is everything, and for local writer Keith Hockton to have released his book, Festivals of Malaysia, this year, well, one might have thought he had inside...
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