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...
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Our Top 12 of 2012. No. 9: Underneath Paris is a parallel universe of tunnels, caverns, bones—and party venues. Will Hunt spends a few days and nights down there with a band of urban explorers…
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Darcy at 200: the novelist Ali Smith believes that Elizabeth Bennet gets what she deserves...
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American-style informality has reached Germany, and it is producing some friction. Andreas Kluth, back home from California, speaks from experience...
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Darcy at 200: "Arrogant", "over-fastidious" and "abominably rude"—the crime writer P.D. James delivers her verdict on Elizabeth Bennet's future husband...
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The Big Question: the poet John Burnside celebrates the heat and eroticism of summer's true lease...
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This Season: Michael Church picks Joyce DiDonato's "Maria Stuarda" at the New York Met, a role to suit her flaring personality...
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Darcy at 200: the short-story writer Helen Simpson sees a man of integrity...
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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...
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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...
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Our Top 12 of 2012. No. 9: Underneath Paris is a parallel universe of tunnels, caverns, bones—and party venues. Will Hunt spends a few days and nights down there with a band of urban explorers…
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Our Top 12 of 2012. No.10: Robert Lane Greene traces the rise of an evocative vocative...
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