Boyd Tonkin
Boyd Tonkin is Literary Editor at The Independent. An award-winning journalist, he was formerly Social Policy Editor of the New Statesman and has broadcast extensively for BBC arts and current affairs programmes. He has judged the Booker Prize, the Whitbread biography award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature.
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Boyd Tonkin: Spend a summer of love with Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy
02 August 2013 07:00 PM
The Week in Books
Book review: Constellation of Genius, By Kevin Jackson
26 July 2013 07:00 PM
1922, which saw the birth of Eliot's "Waste Land" and Joyce's Ulysses, also witnessed a "frenzy of innovation" across all the arts.
Book review: Joseph Anton, By Salman Rushdie
26 July 2013 07:00 PM
Named for his cover identity, Rushdie's third-person memoir of life under the fatwa is both a precious document, and an immersive read.
Boyd Tonkin: This Booker batch heralds a future beyond the print-versus-digital divide
26 July 2013 07:00 PM
The Week in Books
Book review: The Dark Road, By Ma Jian, trans. Flora Drew
26 July 2013 07:00 PM
This river journey through boom-time China's lower depths is worthy of Dickens or Hugo
Book review: Mo Said She Was Quirky, By James Kelman
19 July 2013 07:00 PM
In his first London-set novel, and first with a heroine at its heart, Kelman comes up trumps.
Boyd Tonkin: Alter egos, doppelgängers and the lure of the second string
19 July 2013 07:00 PM
The Week in Books
A celebrity in search of lost time: How Frédéric Beigbeder recovered his past after a drugs bust
19 July 2013 07:00 PM
Interview: Now 48, the wild child of French fiction has lost none of his knack for provocation - or his flair for self-parody.
Heatwave: Lazing on a sunny afternoon
19 July 2013 06:04 PM
Urban planning can make spontaneous interaction between strangers of the kind that blossom – or explode – in the heat either easier, or harder
Book review: You Can't Hide the Sun, By John McCarthy
12 July 2013 07:00 PM
Brave, humane, well-observed, and free of cheap rhetoric, the former hostage's book about the Palestinian minority within Israel should sit on the desk of every Middle Eastern pundit.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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