Culture

The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders

For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?

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The pardoner’s tale

Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring

Sol y Sombra
The trial of the Mangrove Nine

Steve McQueen’s dramatisation of the 1970 trial of the Mangrove Nine is a triumph

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From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again

Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham

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A pair of Czech masterpieces

Two new Czech masterpieces

On Cinema
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops

Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people

Books
Wheeling and spieling

Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence

Dealing
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited

Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves

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How not to earn a living

More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer

Columns
“A metal barbie on the crest of an £143,000 turd”

Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”

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