Former 'chick lit' author wins PEN/Faulkner award
Mar 14: The novelist Kate Christensen has won one of the US's most prestigious literary prizes for her novel The Great Man
Bear Stearns crisis sparks recession fears <== U.K. Daily Telegraph take
Global financial crisis triggers the near-collapse of one of the world's biggest banks.
Pastor's invective clouds Obama campaign <== London Times take
Barack Obama is under pressure to break with Jeremiah Wright after his racially charged attacks on Hillary Clinton

Which is worse: prostitute or affair? <== one of the pressing questions - reminds one of the old saw "bad sex beats no sex"
In his new film Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sex doll. Will the part blow up in his face? Kevin Maher reports
Hot type: taking sides in the White House race <== novelists love Pied Pipers
Records of donations suggest that US novelists are overwhelmingly on the side of the Democrats in the presidential race
Tensions grow over boycott of annual showcase of French publishing industry as fury mounts in Muslim world over honour to Israelis
The Times review by Giles Whittell. 'Palmer has written as serious a history as is possible for such an unbelievable subject'
A £5million gift will enable the Bodleian Library to display its hidden treasures. Justin Cartwright says hurrah


