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Hungarian Wine

The wine of emperors

The puzzling economics of venison

On Drink

Christopher Pincher

Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray

Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times

On Theatre

Anne McElvoy

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Scarlet Blake is a man

Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women

Artillery Row

Jean Hatchet

Free speech for everyone, except …

We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient

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Alan Sokal

A passage to Istria

Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast

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Peter Caddick–Adams

The truth is out there

Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird

Sketch

Robert Hutton

Essential all-embracing warmth

Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Let’s at least agree rape is wrong

Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself

Features

Victoria Smith

Those WhatsApp groups in full

Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones

Artillery Row

Robert Hutton

Musical no man’s lands

Two violin concertos fail to inspire

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Plagiarism: a racist weapon

It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman

Woke World

Titania McGrath

The spectre of the past

The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era

Features

J. S. Barnes

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