A woman’s place

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Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

IT’S ONE THING for two guys to click in bed. Quite another to make it on the road. For six weeks I’d been sharing a single bed with a hot scientist in the middle of England. Was it too soon for Paris?

In 2000, Banu Mushtaq was subject to a fatwa for saying that it was not Islam itself that prohibited women from entering certain mosques, but the patriarchs of those mosques. Today the writer, lawyer

HOW quickly Sylvia’s life had changed! At New Year, she’d wished that the next 12 months would mean better health for her grandmother, a new washing machine for her mother and, if at all possible, a p