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‘Our contributors are chosen for originality and sense of style, not political affiliation. It’s not The Spectator’s job to tell people how to think: we want to entertain and challenge readers.’
If only Georges Simenon had been a bit more like Maigret
The pipe-smoking detective’s creator was a sex addict who died rich and lonely in a vast Swiss château
By Ian Thomson
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Secrets of the maestro
The first major American exhibition of Andrea del Verrocchio confirms that he was a Renaissance innovator, and more than Leonardo’s teacher
By James Panero
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Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Raising the goblet of rock
By Luke Haines
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Race to the finish
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed
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Building a legend
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson reviewed
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A great time in the Faddisphere
Faddis took a break, sat down on a chair onstage near me, then started blowing along with the band again
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Who killed the American arts?
The decline from Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin to A$AP Rocky and Lizzo is a slide from civilization to barbarism
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Bad company
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple reviewed
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No one held Susan Sontag in higher esteem than Susan Sontag
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser reviewed
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Louise Linton: why I don’t like being ‘the wife of…’
I married a politician. But my identity is not defined by my husband
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