Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar is deputy literary editor and arts writer at The Independent. She has been at the paper since 2001, and has previously worked as a news reporter and arts correspondent.
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First Night: Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, O2 Arena, London
15 October 2012 12:00 AM
At last, Jackson appears at the O2 (but this off the wall tribute is no thriller)
Here Comes Trouble, By Michael Moore
13 October 2012 12:00 AM
Michael Moore begins his life story on Oscar night, March 2003, when he made an anti-Iraq war speech which led to widespread hate and which, tellingly, inspired him to make Farenheit 9/11, his anti-Iraq war documentary.
Terry Pratchett: 'What keeps me going is the fight'
11 October 2012 12:00 AM
Terry Pratchett, beloved creator of the Discworld fantasy series, hasn't let the diagnosis of a rare form of Alzheimer's slow him down. He talks to Arifa Akbar about his newest novel and his plans for the future.
The Weekend's Viewing: Arena: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited, Sat, BBC2
The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour, Sat, BBC2
08 October 2012 12:00 AM
When the British public sat down to watch the latest Beatles film on Boxing Day in 1967, they might have expected similar fare to A Hard Day's Night and Help!, released a few years earlier, or maybe even something a bit more festive.
The End of Men and the Rise of Women By Hanna Rosin Viking
29 September 2012 12:00 AM
An unconvincing economics-led theory that predicts female supremacy and male demise
In Other World: SF and the Human Imagination By Margaret Atwood
29 September 2012 12:00 AM
Atwood has long been accused of literary elitism for refusing to align herself with the SF brigade.
Juliette Binoche: A most eccentric career trajectory
26 September 2012 12:00 AM
Juliette Binoche has gone from Hollywood hits to obscure arthouse movies to radical dance. Is there nowhere this courageous, curious French actress won't go?
A Monster Calls, By Patrick Ness
22 September 2012 12:00 AM
Ness had not met the late author, Siobhan Dowd, who died of breast cancer, when he decided to write a book loosely based around her.
Life after Harry Potter: Can JK Rowling cast her spell over grown-ups too?
22 September 2012 12:00 AM
With pre-orders for her new novel topping one million, the author is set for another bestseller
In Praise of Hatred, By Khaled Khalifa, trans. Leri Price
15 September 2012 12:00 AM
This novel of repression and subversion in Syria explores the lure of fanaticism
- 1 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
- 2 Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
- 3 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 4 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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