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The Condition of England
Charles Masterman’s devastating anatomy of Edwardian Britain, reissued on its 100th anniversary, foreshadows our own times
By David Selbourne
The eye of the beholder
A coffee-table book for aesthetes: every painting referred to in Marcel Proust's epic In Search of Lost Time, in a single volume. It reveals the novelist's acute sensitivity to art
Totalitarian recall
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State Steven Heller Phaidon, 240pp, £45
The American scene - Blowing in the wind
John Sutherland on the flatulent pooch captivating the nation's children
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Stephen Poliakoff
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Joan Armatrading
Berlin
East Side Gallery
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A Serious Man
Biography
John Cheever
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Roy Hattersley
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Pains of Youth
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