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Free theatre tickets, 24 August!

nthposition has 10 pairs of tickets for The Emperor Jones ("A shattering piece of theatre" - Guardian; "Paterson Joseph is magnificent" - Independent), by Eugene O'Neill, at the National Theatre, London. The first 10 people who email me (val@nthposition.com) get the tickets (and - apologies for my rudeness! - I ignore the rest). There are £10 tickets if you don't succeed this time, and we'll be offering more tickets in future.

The Selborne pioneer

review by Richard Barnett

[ bookreviews ]

The life of a gentleman and a scholar.

She did it her way...

review by Harry Reynolds

[ bookreviews ]

A new biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton is damning, though probably not in the way its authors hoped.

Surplus will

by Tom Bradley

[ opinion - august 07 ]

The fiction of Andrew Gallix.

A roadmap by any other name

by Paul French

[ politics - august 07 ]

Washington and Pyongyang appear to be moving towards bilateral agreement.

The True Believer

review by Joe Palmer

[ bookreviews ]

"The 'American Dream' has been shelved by popular demand. Our schools reflect a society segregated by race, class, and money, and that’s the way we want it."

A king's progress

by Ron Singer

[ places - august 07 ]

"The Yoruba word for 'white person' is oyinbo , which literally means 'peeled skin.' The joke was that I was literally an oyinbo ."

Interventions

review by Robert Philbin

[ bookreviews ]

Distilled Chomsky.

The good soldier

by Robert Philbin

[ fiction - august 07 ]

"You can reduce words down to meaningless sound fragments, then even bits of incoherent sound, not even mumbles, which carry no information."

Citizen Dirt & Don’t ask what this says about me

by Doug Ramspeck

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Save Me & Lost

by Paul Kingsnorth

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Hidden Ponds

by Paul A Toth

[ poetry - august 07 ]

William S Burroughs dead

by Mark A Murphy

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Locomotion, Cures for common ailments, Such a malcontent, Misalignment, The leg fits into the foot & When did a wall

by Linda Black

[ poetry - august 07 ]

The act of fabrication & Shovels of hope

by Judy Kendall

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Opportunity rocks

by John Menaghan

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Tunnel, Imposition & Gravity race

by Jared Carter

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Goreway and Morning Star

by Jacob McArthur Mooney

[ poetry - august 07 ]

We must have words

by Ted Targett

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Days when hours turn into generations

by Daniel Gallik

[ fiction - august 07 ]

A short story about work.

Fragile & Broken flower

by Matthew Sweeney

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Untitled

by Ditta Baron Hoeber

[ poetry - august 07 ]

Recommended reading

My temporary son

by Timeri N Murari

[ people - february 05 ]

An orphan's tale.

The waxwing slain

by Seamus Sweeney

[ fiction - april 04 ]

"The history of literature - the movements filled with lofty ideas, the endless manifestos and counter-manifestos, the all-too-serious sense of mission - can be considered a history of envy."

The Rough Guide to yodel

review by Ian Simmons

[ cdreviews ]

For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.