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The Warburg

The Warburg refurbished

The Warburg refurbished

The institute used to feel intellectually introverted

On Architecture

Charles Saumarez Smith

Boris: the PM who could do no wrong

This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book

Books

Robert Hutton

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Piano in wartime

War poems (Somm)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Towards a hospitable environmentalism

Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity

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Kittie Helmick

Reading humbly

Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism

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Kittie Helmick

You can’t legislate away hatred

Don’t just do something, stand there

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Simon Calvert

Forces of nature

Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

No average Joe

“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”

Sports

Patrick Kidd

Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll

For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success

On Pop

Sarah Ditum

Humble pie?

Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat

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Robert Hutton

Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga

Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024

On Theatre

Anne McElvoy

Gothic staging

The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum

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Robert Thicknesse

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