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The other Elizabeth Taylor
Discover “one of the finest novelists of her and our time.”
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
Killing the London Custom House
It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years
Play it again, Sam
Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival
Who judges the judges?
Activists are secretly training the judiciary to misapply the law
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
Shani Diluka: The Proust Album (Warner)
His concerto is a rag-and-bone man’s barrow trundling down a Haussmann boulevard
Murders for late October
Professor Jeremy Black rounds up the best autumnal reads that are successful in grounding a sense of place
Old school ties
Fates in this unforgiving industry are long decided
Cardinal Newman
The apostate saint