The Real State of America Atlas: Mapping the Myths and Truths of the United States
A graphic representation of people's lives allows Tim Hall to see the superpower with new eyes
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G.K. Chesterton: A Biography
This is a brilliant biography for a brilliant man. Wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a cape swirling around him, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an unmistakable figure. An eccentric and extremely absent-...
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Conservatism
What do British Conservatives now wish to conserve? At different times they have sought to conserve both free trade and protection, the free market and the managed economy, and, in foreign policy,...
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Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
Cary L. Cooper recommends a well-argued attack on the iniquitous exploitation of young people
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The Legacy of the Italian Resistance
Italy presently boasts three separate and rival days to commemorate its Second World War. 25 April hails the Resistance; January mourns the Shoah (although without admission of Italians' own history...
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Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction
In our endlessly self-reflexive age, it is scarcely uncommon to come across a scholarly book that discusses the academy more than it does the literary or critical texts upon which it purports to...
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Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy
A compendium of celestial charts and tables brings out the explorer in Lewis Dartnell
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After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11
In exploring the wealth of fiction, poetry and drama written in response to and in the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, Richard Gray begins by asserting the uniqueness of the event. He points...
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The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939
The Tolkienesque title suggests a Manichaean struggle between good and evil, but Zara Steiner's new work describes a more complex drama, one with "few heroes, two evil titans, and an assortment of...
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21st Century: Art in the First Decade
Peter Hill considers an exhibition dedicated to art in the first decade of the 21st century and wonders just how innovative the past 10 years have been
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The Rattigan Enigma
Terence Rattigan was fascinated by what drives us and what makes our hearts ache, says Gary Day
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Diary
LondonHigh ArcticThis remarkable installation, displayed in the new Sammy Ofer Wing at the National Maritime Museum until 13 January 2012, was inspired by a trip to the Svalbard Archipelago...
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The Pick - The Jameel Prize 2011
The Jameel Prize 2011LondonA mirror mosaic inspired by the feathers left behind by sparrows on the artist's balcony in Tehran; what looks like a piece of brown cloth lying on the floor, but turns out...
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You're so vain!
"Absolutely right! Couldn't agree more! Spot on!"These were just a few of the enthusiastic reactions from Donald Ringling, our Head of Marketing and Promotion, to the recent proposal by Peter Reader...
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Film review: Poetry
Duncan Wu considers how the quiet dignity of a veteran actress creates an impressive drama