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How many good novels about cricket are there? Sarah Crompton remarked the other day that American novelists are more likely to write about baseball than English ones about cricket. “Don’t mention 'The Go-Between'”, she quite rightly said, because the cri

Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. , the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, has spent about half his life as a Jesuit priest working mostly in Nigeria and Ghana. Ayaan Hirsi Ali must be the only atheist ex-Muslim scholar at t

Ayaan Hirsi Ali must be the only atheist ex-Muslim scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington DC. Originally from Somalia, the most dysfunctional state in contemporary Africa, Hirsi Ali is best known in the US f

Guillermo del Toro, long attached to produce a new version of "Beauty and the Beast" for Warner Bros. , has signed on to direct the movie, TheWrap has confirmed. Andrew Davies, who adapted Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," Alexander Dumas' "The Three

Guillermo del Toro, long attached to produce a new version of "Beauty and the Beast" for Warner Bros. , has signed on to direct the movie, TheWrap has confirmed. Andrew Davies, who adapted Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," Alexander Dumas' "The Three