We must love WH Auden or die
The poet was a restless spirit, haunted by his own Englishness
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The dark shadow of Palestinian exile
Hannah Lillith Assadi’s latest novel, Paradiso 17, draws on her father’s displacement
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Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the death of the Hollywood dream
In the 1970s, an ingenious trio of film auteurs conquered Hollywood. But is the renaissance now over?
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Asako Yuzuki’s acquired taste
Butter author Asako Yuzuki’s latest novel offers clues about what is behind the vogue for Japanese fiction
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Alice Coltrane’s transcendent score
A biography of the spiritual jazz musician reveals the tension between her devotion to John and to a higher calling
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The rise of British Muslims
What do two politicians’ memoirs reveal about the changing fortunes of British Muslims in public life?
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Melvyn Bragg’s class act
Was his success “social mobility”, or just good luck?
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Zoe Strimpel’s orgy of contradictions
Good Slut, her new book, is somehow outrageous and boring at once
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