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Kipling poems discovered by US scholar

london: Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in If to “keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you” are regularly voted the nation’s favourite poem Published 26 Feb, 2013 09:03pm

‘Fiscal cliff’ tops list of language abuses

HOURS after America stepped back from the edge of the fiscal cliff, the phrase has been named as one of the worst cases of language abuse of the last year. Published 04 Jan, 2013 03:31am

Games editors play

AN eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week. Published 28 Nov, 2012 12:00am

E-book deal

FEAR and loathing among the movers and shakers of America`s publishing industry have reached new heights with both... Published 26 Jul, 2010 12:00am

A worthy winner for the Lost Booker

LONDON Winning the Booker prize almost 40 years ago for The Siege of Krishnapur, JG Farrell used his acceptance... Published 21 May, 2010 12:00am

Blair`s memoirs

TONY Blair`s memoirs, signed for an estimated GBP5m almost three years ago, will be published in September, Random... Published 06 Mar, 2010 12:00am