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Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Christopher Tayler sets off in pursuit of Michael Chabon's tale of 10th-century Jewish adventurers, Gentlemen of the RoadGentlemen of the Roadby Michael Chabon204pp, Sceptre, £12Michael Chabon -...

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Podcast: Gentlemen of the Road

Listen to an extract from Michael Chabon's swashbuckling tale of derring-do."Down serpentine tracks and through thundering gorges ... " the world of Gentlemen of the RoadIn the afterword to his latest...

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Critical eye: The Will and Pablo show

"Charles Nicholl has conjured up the most absorbing work of Shakespearean biography I have ever read," said Jonathan Bate in the Sunday Telegraph, reviewing The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street....

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union wins best novel at Hugo awards

Michael Chabon scooped the best novel prize at the Hugo awards this weekend for his alternate Jewish history, The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Chabon beat British science fiction authors Charles Stross...

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Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Set in the Caucasus around the year 950, Michael Chabon's serialised adventure (which first appeared in instalments in the New York Times) was originally to have been titled Jews with Swords. The...

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Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Chabon has left behind his favoured American urbanites for a historical adventure that follows a giant Abyssinian and his Frankish buddy as they slash and swindle their way round the fringes of...

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An ideal father | Michael Chabon

It was love at first sight for Michael Chabon and his father-in-law. So what would become of their relationship once his marriage started to crumble?This content has been removed as our copyright has...

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What do you tell your kids when they ask about your past?

Drugs, sex, what the Beatles really meant… the only response to those awkward questions your kids will ask is honesty, says Michael ChabonThis article has been removed as our copyright has...

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Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon | Book review

Michael Chabon's a great family man, but it's his mistakes that make these essays worth reading, says Michael SayeauDespite his claims to the contrary, Michael Chabon clearly is a great dad. Early on...

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Michael Chabon: 'I hadn't read a lot by men of my generation and background...

The author of Manhood for Amateurs talks to Christopher Tayler'You have no tristeza," Michael Chabon was once informed by a friend who liked to get drunk and stoned and tell people their destinies....

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Maps and Legends, Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon | Book review

How can you resist the charm of Michael Chabon, Nicholas Lezard wondersIt was while reading the essay "Imaginary Homelands" in the collection Maps and Legends that I began to put my finger on the...

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Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon | Book review

The novelist Michael Chabon loves comics. He loves Sherlock Holmes, young adult fiction and those classic ghost stories of the kind produced by MR James. He is also painfully aware that genre fictions...

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Andrew Stanton: why I had to make John Carter the movie

The genius behind Pixar's animated blockbuster hits Finding Nemo and Wall-E on why he decided to change tack and film a live-action adaptation of a vintage sci-fi epicAndrew Stanton doesn't look like...

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Michael Chabon: 'Two years into writing this novel I felt like it was an...

The Pulitzer prize winner on the struggle to write his latest novel and how his wife persuaded him to persevereMichael Chabon, 49, is the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning novelThe Adventures of...

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Michael Chabon: 'Obama? He's a very good writer' - video interview

Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about his latest novel, Telegraph AvenueSarfraz ManzoorElliot Smith

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Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Christopher Tayler sets off in pursuit of Michael Chabon's tale of 10th-century Jewish adventurers, Gentlemen of the RoadGentlemen of the Roadby Michael Chabon204pp, Sceptre, £12Michael Chabon -...

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Podcast: Gentlemen of the Road

Listen to an extract from Michael Chabon's swashbuckling tale of derring-do."Down serpentine tracks and through thundering gorges ... " the world of Gentlemen of the RoadIn the afterword to his latest...

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Critical eye: The Will and Pablo show

"Charles Nicholl has conjured up the most absorbing work of Shakespearean biography I have ever read," said Jonathan Bate in the Sunday Telegraph, reviewing The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street....

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union wins best novel at Hugo awards

Michael Chabon scooped the best novel prize at the Hugo awards this weekend for his alternate Jewish history, The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Chabon beat British science fiction authors Charles Stross...

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Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Set in the Caucasus around the year 950, Michael Chabon's serialised adventure (which first appeared in instalments in the New York Times) was originally to have been titled Jews with Swords. The...

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