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                    [Title] => The spy who loved fiction
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What if a branch of the British Secret Service were devoted to literature? And what if winning the Cold War meant winning the hearts and minds of readers through fiction, not propaganda?

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Ivan Jim Saguibal Layugan, 20, is an incoming senior at the University of Baguio where he majors in English language and literature.

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We know that, in Greek mythology, Icarus flew too close to the sun with borrowed wings and plummeted to the sea. Some would call that tragic.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 569042 [Title] => The diabolical nerdiness of Ian McEwan [Summary] =>

This is the secret of Ian McEwan’s success: He’s playing us.  In his novels he manipulates us into thinking we know what’s going on, only to turn on the lights and reveal something else.

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ON CHESIL BEACH
By Ian McEwan
John Cape London, 166 pages
Available at Powerbooks

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By Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape, 280 pages
Available at Powerbooks

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Willy Liangco finished BS Psychology at UP Diliman and is currently a 4th-year medical student at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. He entered med school because he thinks Agent Scully is cool.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1789980 [AuthorName] => Wilfredo L. Liangco [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177877 [Title] => Playing god is not for amateurs [Summary] => Atonement
By Ian McEwan
Vintage UK, 372 pages
Available at National Book Store


"How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?"

This is the dilemma facing Briony Tallis, the 13-year-old girl at the center of Atonement, Ian McEwanís latest and most ambitious novel.
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