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DETOX WITH KURT SCHWITTERS
This Season: Olivia Weinberg picks the collages of a German painter, interned in Britain during the second world war
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BEYOND THE KILLING FIELDS
Nearly 50 years ago, Nicholas Shakespeare's family was forced to flee Cambodia. Now he and his father return for the first time since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and find ordinary Cambodians enduring a new kind of agony
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A SMILING SHRUNKEN GODDESS
Authors on Museums: the poet Alice Oswald returns to Cirencester in search of a Roman nymph
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THE FLUSH TOILET IS THE GREATEST INVENTION
The Economist's cover story this week asks if we will ever again invent anything as useful as "the humble loo". When we devoted a Big Question to the best inventions, it was also the one chosen by Nick Valéry
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GLOOMY, IN A GOOD WAY
This Season: Tim de Lisle picks a new album from I Am Kloot, a Manchester band of sparkling glumness
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HOW BECKETT DID IT
Notes on a Voice: Emma Hogan on a man who reinvented theatre, while rarely going to it
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HE NEVER APPEALS
Darcy at 200: the novelist Penelope Lively is entirely resistant to his charms...
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LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
This Season: Nicholas Barber's highlight is a film that deals in naked truths
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DARWIN
The Galápagos gave Darwin a free rein and ample inspiration. Now, Rebecca Willis finds, they are tightly policed—and make you think about the destruction of species...
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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...
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