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Best of Brit Lit

A weekly look at great reads by the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: Philip Larkin goes Hollywood, the portrait of a portraitist, and getting rich quick in China.

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Larkin's First Interview

The discovery of unpublished work by Philip Larkin is a big event—especially when it shows the notoriously reclusive poet behaving like the most manipulative of Hollywood stars.

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