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Bookish: SATURDAY EYE ON (5#) -

# Ooh, a rare treat: Karen Russell's book, new over there, is reviewed by Catherine Taylor. Karen is from Miami or Coral Gables. Says Taylor: "strongly reminiscent of Angela Carter but wonderfully confident and refreshing in its own right." She liked it! [grkr]

# Linguistics: David Crystal travelled around England in 2005 to research if and how accents and dialects of the UK have been changing. [grdc]

# Natasha Walter reviews Khaled Hosseini's new book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, follow-up to his novel The Kite Runner. [grkh]

# The End of Innocence: In an extended and contemplative essay Pankaj Mishra explores how 9/11 impacted writers. Have they succeeded in capturing the new world order? [grpm]

# More: in the Guardian Review.

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