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3am eternal

Insomnia is a secret life, whose lonely, wakeful hours reveal a different version of reality. The poet David Harsent describes his experience of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.

By David Harsent

Saudi spin at the British Museum

Saudi spin at the British Museum

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Golden Spider Silk (V&A)

Golden Spider Silk (V&A)

Extreme couture from the highlands of Madagascar.

The reinvention of Leonardo da Vinci

The reinvention of Leonardo da Vinci

Why did the painter flee Florence for Milan?

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Riding high

Riding high

David Hockney’s Yorkshire landscapes show that figurative painting – whether on an iPad or 32 joined canvases – is the most humanly involving visual form.

Gaza uncovered

Gaza uncovered

A cinematic celebration of the lives of ordinary Palestinians.

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A Dangerous Method (15)

A Dangerous Method (15)

Ryan Gilbey enjoys David Cronenberg's Freudian sight gags.

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Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A triumphant cinematic return for the Muppets.

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The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

“God is a force – terror and enlightenment at the same time”

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Carnage (15)

Carnage (15)

Roman Polanski loves a nice apartment

The Secret Catacombs of Paris (Radio 4)

The Secret Catacombs of Paris (Radio 4)

The silence in the Paris catacombs is terrifying.

The Fixer (BBC2)

Rachel Cooke loathes a makeover show packed with self-promotion.

Adapt or die

Adapt or die

In the battle of the Birdsongs, telly nicks it - just.

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We’ll Take Manhattan (BBC4)

Rachel Cooke wonders: Was fashion in the 1960s really this wet?

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The Politics of Pandas (Radio 4)

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Burying the hatchet

Burying the hatchet

Adam Mars-Jones wins award for the "most trenchant book review of the past twelve months".

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Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Caricatures, interiors and comb-overs.

Dickens at 200

Dickens at 200

A life in letters.

The value of  a quiet voice

The value of a quiet voice

For so long the poor relation of English letters, the short story finally came of age in the fiction of V S Pritchett.

Whitney Houston, 1963-2012

Whitney Houston, 1963-2012

Death of a singer blessed with a voice that was "good to vowels".

Not raving, but drowning

Not raving, but drowning

Tom Ravenscroft misses 1990s dance music, the only kind he could dance to.

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Why we should mourn the decline of the B-side.

Travelling Light (Lyttelton Theatre)

Andrew Billen fails to be charmed by a film fantasy with no roots in reality.

Still crazy after all these years

Still crazy after all these years

Simon Stephens's new play transports Alfred Jarry to the International Criminal Tribunal.

Andrzej Klimowski

Cultural Capital podcast: Andrzej Klimowski

On theatre

Andrew Billen

On television

Rachel Cooke

On ideas

John Gray

On fiction

Leo Robson

On radio

Antonia Quirke

On film

Ryan Gilbey

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