The Who, currently on the road in America, have just announced a British tour too. In 2011 Pete Townshend spoke to Simon Garfield about life in a "celebration machine"—and the moment that was nearly his downfall
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There have been five mass extinctions in history. The question is, when can we expect the sixth? Or has it already begun? Marek Kohn reports, starting in southern Spain, with a look at the Iberian lynx
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Britain's National Theatre is on a roll. This week it announced that from March it will have four productions running in the West End. Four years ago, Robert Butler spent a month at this vibrant institution and saw it getting bigger, busier and happier
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The Who, currently on the road in America, have just announced a British tour too. In 2011 Pete Townshend spoke to Simon Garfield about life in a "celebration machine"—and the moment that was nearly his downfall
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A Game, a Gadget and an App: Tom Standage free-runs in colonial Boston, weighs up the new Kindle against the iPad mini, and remixes Brian Eno
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Darcy at 200: "Pride and Prejudice" reaches its double century today. In the last in our series about Jane Austen's hero, we trace authors' reactions from Walter Scott to Helen Fielding
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The Passenger: in a new series, Jonathan Meades considers the architecture of cars. He begins with the Tatra T87—the car of choice for lesbian vampire movies
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This Season: for her theatre highlight, Isabel Lloyd chooses a joyous new musical about America that has "bonkers specifics"
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Going native: beware of the shoeshine shysters. Alev Scott shows how to make the most of the mosques and the mayhem
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There have been five mass extinctions in history. The question is, when can we expect the sixth? Or has it already begun? Marek Kohn reports, starting in southern Spain, with a look at the Iberian lynx
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My Madeleine: in the first of a new series, the novelist Kapka Kassabova eats her way into her past
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At the Cinema: in Hollywood, physiognomy is destiny. Tom Shone sees fate in the gnarled faces of Spielberg's "Lincoln"
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Britain's National Theatre is on a roll. This week it announced that from March it will have four productions running in the West End. Four years ago, Robert Butler spent a month at this vibrant institution and saw it getting bigger, busier and happier
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