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He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
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Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a p (Read More)
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I can visualise Alan Ross's expression – ineffably polite, but just failing to disguise his displeasure at being called anyone's hero. Perhaps "exemplar" would be a better word, given that he was the first writer I properly c (Read More)
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Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostessGertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due t (Read More)
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This fast-paced thriller has a compassionate heart, says Josh LaceyThere is an obvious pun in the title of Daniel Finn's new novel. (He has written other books as Will Gatti, but this is his first to be published under this n (Read More)
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Van Gogh's letters provide an extraordinary map of the artist's interior worldMichelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable's correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying degre (Read More)
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Clare Clark on a tangled family webMaya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental film-ma (Read More)
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Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, (Read More)
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AbelardAbelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story (Read More)
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Giles Foden is carried along by a holistic view of the salmon's lifecycleWhen Richard Shelton's first book The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge was published in 2004 it was acclaimed by Telegraph and Guardian readers (Read More)
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (Read More)
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The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not (Read More)
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The culmination of a triumph of storytellingYour Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewellby Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 560pp, Chatto & Windus, £18.99Part two of Javier Marías's metaphysical epic, (Read More)
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Donatello was the first genius of the Renaissance, but his raw, expressive work also challenges all our assumptions about the period. He is justly the star of the V&A's triumphant new galleriesThe Ricordanze of Giovanni Chell (Read More)
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Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
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Desired by many and beloved by elegant celebrities, the Hermès scarf is an iconic piece of fashion history. But how the deuce are you meant to tie it?Many designers strive to close the gap between fashion and art, but few suc (Read More)
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This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
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Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
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Rita Marcalo's plan to induce a seizure on stage challenges people's fears of the condition – and makes for witty artThirty years ago I tried to fundraise for Fall Down and Be Counted, a documentary about living with epilepsy (Read More)
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