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Books and Arts

Book Review
Pat Barker dives into the first part of Aeschylus’ Oresteia
By Brian Martin
Book Review
Imperfections in wood lead to perfection in carvings
By Maggie Fergusson
Book Review
Eliza Clark doesn’t write for the faint-hearted
By Alex Peake-Tomkinson
Book Review
Cello explains how music helped escape a certain death at Auschwitz
By Alexandra Coghlan
Book Review
The Serviceberry provides a unique economic model
By Caspar Henderson
Book Review
Daniel Light retells quests for the world’s highest peaks
By Sara Wheeler
Book Review
Tim Robey takes us through a century of Hollywood’s flops
By Alexander Larman
Book Review
Oliver Sacks had a limitless curiosity
By Leyla Sanai
Book Review
We must learn to pray again
By Mary Wakefield
Book Review
Will Jordan Peterson declare his spiritual allegiance?
By Rupert Shortt
Book Review
The Exchange will delight anyone seeking an impossible story made possible
By Amelia Butler-Gallie
Book Review
John le Carre’s son resurrects George Smiley
By A.S.H. Smyth
Book Review
An entertaining but selective introduction to the cities of the future
By Helen Barrett
Book Review
Reading the classics shouldn’t be a duty
By Philip Hensher
Book Review
Reliving the Bataclan massacre
By Thomas P. Lambert
Book Review
The horror and the seeds of hope at Leningrad
By Sinclair McKay
Book Review
Dorothy Parker’s Hollywood hell
By Scott Bradfield
Book Review
Kate Bush — always quite hippy, dippy, ‘out there’
By Travis Elborough

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