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Hanif Kureishi's Borderline
Hanif Kureishi's play Borderline, Placido Domingo sings pop music

Stephen Poliakoff's Favourite Nights
Stephen Poliakoff, Kingsley Amis, and a new album by oboist Malcolm Messiter

Arthur Miller - All My Sons
Arthur Miller's All My Sons, playwright John Osborne, and an exhibition of Nicolas Poussin

Asian Arts in Hong Kong
Asian Festival of the Arts, The Orchestra Conductor, and Sardines by Nuruddin Farah

Kipling's India
Kipling's India, Juan Martin, AN Wilson, and the paintings of Patrick Caulfield

Japanese Cultural Festival in London
Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy

The Whitbread Awards
Maurice Leitch's Silver City and Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land are both Whitebread winners

Shared Experience and The Seagull
Shared Experience's The Seagull by Chekhov is reviewed by Robert Cushman

Rushdie Wins Booker Prize
Midnight's Children wins the Booker Prize and its author Salman Rushdie is interviewed

Martin Sherman's Cracks
Michael Coveney reviews two plays: Martin Sherman's Cracks and Ellen Dryden's Harvest