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Film

The Good Liar review - literate and entertaining but too many twists

Alexander Larman / 16 Nov 2019

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Life

Diary: Feminist hero Margaret Thatcher is my cup of tea

Emily Hill / 16 Nov 2019

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History

How Zulu radio dramas subverted Apartheid’s grand design

Liz Gunner / 16 Nov 2019

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Food

Down by the Riverside

Bruce Palling / 16 Nov 2019

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Travel

The Paris of the Middle East has reinvented itself

Mattie Brignal / 16 Nov 2019

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Books

Essay - How Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma revolutionised the novel

Gerald Malone / 16 Nov 2019

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Music

Benjamin Britten's Russia connection

John Freeman / 16 Nov 2019

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Sport

Why compiling best of all-time teams is a fool's errand

Allan Massie / 16 Nov 2019

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Film

The Irishman is a worthy coda to Scorsese's gangster genre

Will Hutton / 16 Nov 2019