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‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life

The V&A’s new exhibition demonstrates that a handbag is indeed much more than its function

The second instalment of Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary covers his first meal out in 10 months and how the Argentinian capital has been infiltrated by communists

Tim Abrahams asks whether the crisis will prompt builders to create the type of houses we need

Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy

It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers

Brexiteer anger is beginning to spill over into actions

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career

Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart

In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia