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‘Extinction Rebellion has discovered that by mixing up its demands with concern for the environment, it can win support — or at least a passing kind of support — from a much wider band of the population.’
Time to end the taste truce
Have we become so tolerant that taste no longer matters?
From the Magazine
Tough gospel: the twin cities of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the world we have lost: grandparents, honest jobs and Sunday school teachers
By James Panero
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A motel room of one’s own
Adman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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‘A Russian vowel is an orange, an English vowel is a lemon’
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov reviewed
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The perfect crime
Once true crime has you by the listicles, you’re compelled to return to the scene
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Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed
By D.J. Taylor
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Heart of darkness
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean reviewed
By Sara Wheeler
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On Freud’s couch
The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 by William Feaver reviewed
By Craig Raine
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Why do we write dedications in books?
These ghostly remnants of love, loss and friendship tell stories of their own
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On photography, shrines and Maradona: a Neapolitan pilgrimage
The author wanders around Naples seeking transcendence – and finds it
By Geoff Dyer
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