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Intolerable intolerance
David Herman reviews The Tyranny of Virtue by Robert Boyers
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
The prophet who didn’t do people
Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
Longing for more
Some of the greatest movies ever made were incredibly long. But is a film lasting 13 hours just too much?
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him