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Tuesday, 21 December 2004

Big Deal, says Roosevelt

Posted on 20:32 by Unknown
Philip Roth isn’t the only one who can rewrite history. Have a look at this front page from the archives of the venerable Onion newspaper.

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  • ▼  2004 (126)
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      • Amu, and the 1984 riots
      • The Humourless
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      • Robert Bloch, Lon Chaney and an elegy for silent f...
      • The one where they all turn 30
      • Rushdie-Dalrymple reading
      • Afternoon at the Golf Club
      • Bad sex award
      • A Sunday interview with Mihir Bose
      • Reading for pleasure: wassat?
      • Poe in the barbershop
      • Tendu’s 34th, and amateur commentators
      • U2 rocks
      • More book lists
      • Ved Mehta's The Red Letters
      • More on movie-watching: a mail exchange with YB
      • Ocean’s Twelve, and ways of watching films
      • Apologies to Triumph the Sock Dog
      • All the world's a copy-cat
      • Indian batting: a passage to greatness
      • Ishiguro, Dylan and celeb reading lists
      • “Golly gee! People read! Books!”
      • The plagiarism debate (contd)
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