Best crime novels of the past decade
Prepare to be afraid as Spear’s takes a look at the best crime novels of the past decade – from…
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‘I’m the architect of my own destiny’: A day in the life of a rising entrepreneur
My alarm goes off at 7.20am. If something fun happened the night before I’ll hit sleep till 7.45. If not…
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Letter from Paris – the curious story behind a rediscovered Lucio Fontana piercing-painting
It seems that practically every month of late art lovers have been able to rejoice as lost masterpieces have reappeared,…
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Art Review: Durer by Michael Riedel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Explaining Michael Riedel’s art is difficult – it’s like entering a particularly winding hedge maze where the hedges are mirrors…
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Dorchester Collection offers luxury getaways in Milan for her and for him & him
You wait ages for one glamorous five-star luxury hotel promotion then the Dorchester Collection offer three at once. Ladies who…
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Why taxes and loans separate the New York and London art markets
London and New York, where Sotheby’s and Christie’s hold their record-smashing Impressionist and Post-War & Contemporary auctions, are still the…
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The most underrated books of all time
Author: Romy van den Broeke There’s nothing more satisfying than becoming gripped by a book, especially if it’s an unexpected…
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Why wealth is no barrier to depression
For the last few months, whenever anyone has asked me the subject of my memoir Black Rainbow, I’ve tended to…
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Review of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House
Richard Eyre’s production of La Traviata for the Royal Opera House is twenty years old. I’m sure it has survived…
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Battling artists help depict the many faces of war
FIGHTING FACES Facial hair, to judge from the evidence at the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition The Great War in…
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Review of A View From the Bridge at the Young Vic
Rarely is the razor’s edge sharper than in live theatre, but Ivo van Hove has created a production that is…
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Future classics
From classics by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Mark Twain and Ian McEwan, there are certain novels that are…
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Review of Henri Matisse’s The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
Henri Matisse’s exhibition has been much touted, highlighted by the iconic falling Icarus amid a starry sky, but are these…
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A Dog’s Life: West London’s Pampered Pooches
Author: Aoife Moriarty Mirroring the lives of their affluent owners, the dogs and cats of West London are beginning to…
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Review of Henri Matisse's The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
There is much to gain by seeing these pieces in the flesh, as not only are they a whirling carousel…
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Alexandre Singh on his fantastical, theatrical artwork The Humans
Alexandre Singh (born Bordeaux, 1980) won the Prix Meurice, awarded by Le Meurice hotel in Paris to a French Contemporary…
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Best contemporary short story collections
In recent years the short story has experienced something of a ‘boom’, with more collections being published, along with a…
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Posher prime ministers, small budget deficits, report says
Do Eton and Oxbridge graduates make better prime ministers? That’s what research seems to suggest, with a new paper arguing…
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Football’s moral bankruptcy shames the globe and irritates fans
Football is in the throes of an identity crisis as big money, unsuitable owners and utterly inappropriate countries use the…
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Worst literary dystopia to live in?
Author: Aoife Moriarty Some of this genre’s most famous works – including Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four –…
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