This week's arts diary

Tom McCarthy hits out, Caitlin Moran wants women to wash less, plus Socrates on the riotsTom McCarthy hits out ✒ Tom McCarthy, acclaimed author of the Man Booker shortlisted C, delivered a shot in the arm to the Edinburgh international book festival with a talk on the nature of writing that took in Ovid, Rilke, Freud, Joyce, Cocteau, Beckett and Kraftwerk: his thesis being that writing is a form of "going through the dial", of reception and transmission; and that good writing is the world's ...

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