If my sentimentals connect me to truth, beauty and goodness, can they really be so bad?
By Teresa Mull
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Putin made no move in Ukraine during Trump’s administration. Coincidence?
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His suicide remains one of literary history’s mysteries
By Kevin Cook
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Their display in the Duveen gallery of the British Museum in London is not impressive
By Peter Jones
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The writer, Twitter warrior and flâneur is so popular because he isn’t selling you anything
By Rosie Gray
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The golden age of sport betting has barely begun
By Neal Pollack
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Every woman, pregnant or not, needs a Grumpy Mommy Compound
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When the transgressive becomes normal, the normal will become transgressive
By Matt Purple
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Some scientists warn that the studies are an ‘extinction-level risk’
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Is Taiwan about to lose one of its closest allies?
By John Pietro
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The South Carolina lawmaker is a serious congresswoman in unserious times
By Ben Domenech
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Europe must be left to police Europe and Asia to police Asia
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I find myself wondering how I might have fared were I a child today
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A benign break-up is now a beacon to dissatisfied land conglomerates everywhere
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Engaging in debate with me, I think, is not something that the other candidates will relish
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Books + Arts
Rudyard Kipling would have appreciated this book
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The highest compliment that can be paid to Kurkov’s diary is that it is not a work of art
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Casino Royale introduced the world’s readers to exotic phenomena that would become as familiar as their families
By John Walsh
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A new subgenre of Australian detective fiction is gaining global acclaim
By Amanda Craig
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The difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd
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The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged
By D.J. Taylor
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To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
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In a new exhibition, the curators go some way to explaining the brilliance of the artist
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Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism
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Life
I’ve now been here for six years and it will be my last residence
By Taki
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Ketchum today does not exploit the Hemingway connection
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‘Don’t look!’ said the student nurse as he set about staunching the blood
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Place
For the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Paris wasn’t the hardship it might have been
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For twelve days and eleven nights, we got to live on a floating United Nations
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Food and Drink
Harvested early, it is the most appropriate of springtime accompaniments
By Jane Stannus
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Trying to recreate my childhood favorites in Britain is pointless
By Hannah Moore
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Each recipe calculates the cost of ingredients per serving, down to the penny
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The pub has Ireland, and the Irish experience in America, in its DNA
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In Georgia, raising a glass is an essential ritual of the supra, their ancient tradition of the feast
By Orson Fry
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Wine is only a condiment if your host has blundered in his choice
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And Finally
Orcas make us ask troubling questions about humanity
By Simon Barnes
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Four centuries ago, they were already aware that super was being overdone
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