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Seckou Keita Quintet

The Senegalese kora player unsettles Western perceptions of Africa

We know what’s good for you

We know what’s good for you

Criticised by both right and left, the Proms are nonetheless an annual institution that stays true to its founders’ democratic ideals

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Disorderly conduct

Disorderly conduct

The drum'n'bass DJ Goldie has always found classical music elitist - yet it needn't be so. And then there's his thoughts on David Cameron and youth violence

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Mos Def, The Ecstatic

Mos Def, The Ecstatic

Hip-hop that looks beyond the ’hood is back

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Sounds of discontent

Music

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Pop art

The end of irony?

End of the  irony age

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Classical music

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke Archive

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Jason Cowley

On Philip Roth

The Humbling

Slavoj Žižek

Lenin was right

“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

© New Statesman 1913 – 2009

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