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Ben East

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Manchester, England
Ben East is an award-winning arts, culture, travel and sports journalist based in Manchester. He’s been covering the best books, television shows, artists and musicians for The National since 2009, and also works for The Observer, Metro and Monocle.
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Kit Harington, left, and Emilia Clarke in the season finale of Game of Thrones. Macall B. Polay / HBO via AP
Game of Thrones: After explosive season 7 finale, how will the show finish?

The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is set to air in 2019

TelevisionAugust 29, 2017
Arundhati Roy and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness face Costa winner Sebastian Barry and Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead for a place on September's shortlist. AP
Man Booker Prize 2017: A look at the longlisted nominees

The longlist is led by Arundhati Roy's return to fiction with her second novel The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness

BooksJuly 29, 2017
A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi. Courtesy Bloomsbury
Book review: Laleh Khadivi’s A Good Country explores how intolerence can send a teen into radicalism

Laleh Khadivi’s latest novel is the story of a typical American teenager eventually seduced by the dream of a Muslim caliphate.

July 21, 2017
Fatima Bhutto brings a critical, intimate perspective on Pakistan. Capucine Bailly / Corbis
Author Fatima Bhutto sees deepening shadows across Pakistani life

The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon author will appear at this year's Sharjah International Book Fair.

July 21, 2017
Hassan Sharif's Drawing Squares on the Floor Using a Cube (1982). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
Hassan Sharif’s 1982 piece on display at London’s Whitechapel Gallery

To be included in this huge - and genuinely global - survey of abstract art, entitled Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art And Society 1915-2015, feels like a big moment for the UAE artist.

July 21, 2017
Unknown photographer Fahrelnissa Zeid in her studio, Paris, c.1950s Raad bin Zeid Collection © Raad bin Zeid
Fahrelnissa Zeid: Inside a major new retrospective of the late artist

As London’s Tate Modern presents a retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid’s work, we delve into how the artist’s life was as colourful as her work

July 04, 2017
June 27, 2017
Diksha Basu, the author of The Windfall. Photo by Mikey McCleary
A new generation of Indian writers using humour to tackle tricky subjects

As books from Diksha Basu, Balli Kaur Jaswal and Sandhya Menon begin to gain international attention, Ben East looks at the development of a new breed of Indian ‘chick-lit’ novels that combine comedy and satire with real heart and soul.

June 26, 2017
The Things We Thought We Knew by Mahsuda Snaith. Courtesy Penguin UK
Book review: The Things We Thought We Knew is a juxtaposition of black comedy, memory and place

It will be equally at home on young-adult and more literary bookshelves – which is not an easy balancing act for a debut novel to achieve.

June 26, 2017
Omar Robert Hamilton. Photo by Sam Waxman
‘It’s very close to my experiences and those of my friends I worked with’, says filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton

Filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton was one of the many people filming events in Tahrir Square, Cairo, during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He tells us why he decided to tell the story of that unforgettable time in a novel rather than a movie

June 20, 2017
Omar Robert Hamilton. Photo by Sam Waxman
‘It’s very close to my experiences and those of my friends I worked with’, says filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton

Filmmaker Omar Robert Hamilton was one of the many people filming events in Tahrir Square, Cairo, during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He tells us why he decided to tell the story of that unforgettable time in a novel rather than a movie

June 20, 2017
Daughters of India by Jill McGivering. Courtesy Allison & Busby
Book review: Jill McGivering’s Daughters of India tells both sides of the story

Jill McGivering has had to tread very carefully with her story of the struggle for Indian independence – which you would trust her to do, given she is the BBC’s South Asia correspondent.

June 20, 2017
Daughters of India by Jill McGivering. Courtesy Allison & Busby
Book review: Jill McGivering’s Daughters of India tells both sides of the story

Jill McGivering has had to tread very carefully with her story of the struggle for Indian independence – which you would trust her to do, given she is the BBC’s South Asia correspondent.

June 20, 2017
To Kill A Mockingbird will get its first graphic-novel adaptation. Harper / AP photo
Book news: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to get first graphic-novel adaptation and more

Plus: The Power by Naomi Alderman wins the Baileys prize for women’s fiction and Dubai-based author Karen Osman to get first novel published in November. 

June 13, 2017
Author Arundhati Roy. Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi
Why it took 20 years for Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy to release her second novel

Arundhati Roy's enduring popularity is a staggering display of what her eight-million-selling debut continues to mean to so many people – and a reflection of the excitement surrounding The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

June 13, 2017
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