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From the magazineBooks / Caught in a Venus flytrap: Red Pyramid, by Vladimir Sorokin, reviewed
From the magazineTheatre / If you hate the Irish, you’ll adore this play
From the magazineExhibitions / The compelling, ghostly charcoals of Frank Auerbach
From the magazineAfter life / Stephen O’Leary, my brilliant friend
From the magazineThe Wiki Man / The case for driverless cars
From the magazineReal life / It’s pointless arguing with an Irishman
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It is often the small constants in the culture that give the game away. Much of the news today is not about anything significant, but rather a sort of lower gossip. Every day, some new scandal bubbles along. Someone is found to have said something once, often a long time ago. The culprit is shamed
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Death of a choir
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Don’t tell them but the French didn’t in fact invent etiquette
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From the magazineFrom the sublime to the ridiculous: Royal Ballet’s MacMillan triple bill reviewed
From the magazineFans of torture, dolly birds and fat lines of cocaine will love The Gentlemen
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‘‘The online speculation is going to be wild.’’
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‘‘You go down the rabbit hole – I’ll stick with social media.’’
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‘‘I assume they didn’t need an intimacy co-ordinator.’’
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