The author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake talks about her affinity for "plainness," why she avoids book reviews, and her new collection of short stories.

His groundbreaking work, The Shock of the New, brought him fame and confirmed his position as one of the world's most respected - and feared - critics. On the publication of his first memoir, Robert Hughes talks about art, his Aussie roots and the legal n

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