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THE BEST MONTH IS BRUMAIRE
The Big Question: in the final choice from our six writers, Ann Wroe picks a month that was invented during the French Revolution... read more »
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SPRECHEN SIE DU?
American-style informality has reached Germany, and it is producing some friction. Andreas Kluth, back home from California, speaks from experience... read more »
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THE BEST MONTH IS JULY
The Big Question: the poet John Burnside celebrates the heat and eroticism of summer's true lease... read more »
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FACEBOOK: LIKE?
Our Top 12 of 2012. No. 6: The chances are, you have a Facebook profile yourself: by July, a billion people will have one. But have you thought about what it’s doing to real life? Robert Lane Greene reports, starting with a visit to Facebook’s offices... read more »
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NON COGITO, ERGO SUM
Our Top 12 of 2012. No. 5: Sometimes thinking is a bad idea. Ian Leslie draws on Dylan, Djokovic and academic research to put the case for unthinking... read more »
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HEY DUDE
Our Top 12 of 2012. No.10: Robert Lane Greene traces the rise of an evocative vocative... read more »
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CAN THE GUARDIAN SURVIVE?
Our Top 12 of 2012. No. 12: newspapers are in crisis—yet they have greater reach than ever before. And nowhere is this truer than at the Guardian, the paper that revealed the phone-hacking scandal. Tim de Lisle follows its triumphs and tribulations and talks to its editor... read more »
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