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‘Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence, they say. Sure enough, there is plenty of the latter at work in national politics. The Democratic side of the presidential race has become a muddle, with too many candidates and no clear message.’
The human clay
As he collects more than three decades of thinking and writing about sculpture into a new book, Eric Gibson introduces a few of his favorite things
By Eric Gibson
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Around the world in 49 days
The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World by Samuel Zipp reviewed
By David Bahr
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How close is humanity to destroying itself?
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord reviewed
By Tom Chivers
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‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
By Luke Haines
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Uniform beats
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed
By Jay Elwes
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An old master who still feels new
El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?
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Cats: The Snuff Movie
Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that
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Birth of a nation
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed
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I won’t read American Dirt — but not because the author has the wrong skin color
You can’t own stories. You can’t patent topics and classes of character
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