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Timeless stories from our 173-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
The postwar unmaking of Samuel Beckett
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James Ellroy tries to let go
Translation and traduction
A reappraisal of Dutch Golden Age paintings
The WTC memorial
Why the finance industry never had to lie
The afterlives of Philip Larkin
The false nostalgia of Mad Men
A Czech’s boozy refuge from writer’s bloc
Christopher Hitchens's marks and misses
The singular fabrications of Raymond Roussel
The restless genius of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bruce Chatwin
Revision and craft
Climate change comeuppance
Dana Spiotta's persuasive performances
The remastery of Paul Simon
Francis Fukuyama's infinite regression
Dublin's restaurant bubble
The beatification of our daily bread
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