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Tennessee Williams

Family troubles

Family troubles

Frecknall’s Streetcar is a commendable, if not stellar outing

On Theatre

Anne McElvoy

The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation

How Donald Trump made populism funny

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Jacob Phillips

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Izzy Hardcastle

Ornament of the book-world

Arty Types

D.J. Taylor

Escaping the digital dark age

We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge

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Catherine Warr

Religion without mercy

Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness

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Niall Gooch

The fables of Davos Man

Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom

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Sam Buntz

Sean Scully in France

He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work

Studio

William Cook

The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting

Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response

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Adam LeBor

A constructive opposition

The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start

Sketch

Robert Hutton

Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling

We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain

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Victoria Smith

She wants to be in America

🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶

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Robert Hutton

This is England, nor are we out of it

Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art

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Sebastian Milbank

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