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Faces and Places: 1st October 2009

Finding the solution to an irritating problem

A single scratch of the head is enough to make normally sane parents panic. Their fear ... headlice.

Naples: For some, Italy will never go out of fashion

Traipsing around Mafia-imbued streets, reading and then abandoning all guide books.

Park Inn, Manchester

The Park is the latest in a chain which is branching out nationally. Think a notionally up-market Travelodge and you’re just about there.

Recipe: Butternut Squash Risotto

Makes 4 to 6 portions

What to do with your second-hand citron

What should you do with them after Succot is over?

Review: Muriel Spark: The Biography

This Muriel lacks Spark

Review: The Invention of Lying

A gently amusing comedy if ultimately unmemorable.

Review: District 13: Ultimatum

Review: Mother Courage And Her Children

War is hell, says Brecht.

Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Refutations, Revisions

A far-from-the-middle Middle East view

Review: Our Class

Review: Barbra

This is why Barbra is in Sinatra’s class

Ryan Craig owns up: I have to write about Jews

The acclaimed playwright has finally come to terms with being pigeon-holed.

Why parks are no walk in the park

Rick Gekoski: The Jewish Bill Bryson

Critics are likening Rick Gekoski to the popular author. Both write books, but only one of them loves Coventry City.