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The Bad Seeds

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Nick Cave sounds as good as ever

On Music

Duncan Wheeler

Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga

Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024

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Anne McElvoy

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Chill message of Booker shortlist

The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel

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The Secret Author

Splashing the cash

On the complex relationship between art and money

Dealing

Rufus Bird

The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks

Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?

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Jorge González-Gallarza

Landscapes of allusion and illusion

On the architecture of recreation

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James Stevens Curl

AI is a terrible poet

It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language

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Owen Edwards

Debunking the decline deniers

Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it

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Niall Gooch

November Letters

Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism

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The Bezos behemoth

Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories

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Andrew Orlowski

Bernard-Henri Lévy

France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist

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Graham Elliott

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Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee

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Robert Hutton

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