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Christy Edwall

Here’s to you, Ms Robinson

Christy Edwall listens to the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and essayist speak

Settling the Score

Christy Edwall talks with Dario Marianelli about the art of composition

Seeing a man about a dog

Christy Edwall speaks to author Mark Haddon about what comes after a bestseller

Large-scale opera-tions

Christy Edwall talks to impresario Ellen Kent about Romanians, Verdi, and pheasants

Manuscripts of Desire

Christy Edwall talks medieval manuscripts with Nicholas Perkins

The long and the short of it

Christy Edwall speaks with the new master of the short short story

Just right with Cartwright

Christy Edwall talks apartheid and friendship with the acclaimed author

Wise-ing Up

Christy Edwall takes a tour of Summertown's Sarah Wiseman Gallery

Down and Out in Literary Paris

Christy Edwall goes to Paris in search of books, bohemians, and the legendary George Whitman

Masters at work

Christy Edwall introduces a new series of interviews with creative academics from Oxford

Political pens

Christy Edwall explores the role of South African Fiction under the Secrecy Bill and post-Apartheid

Limp Pens

Christy Edwall considers the quirks of literary anti-prizes in general, and the 2011 Bad Sex in Literature Award in particular.

1Q84: Lost in translation?

Christy Edwall reviews Haruki Murakami's latest offering

The Book of Boredom

Cherwell reviews David Foster Wallace's unfinished, posthumous novel The Pale King, and wonders what might have been