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Friday 5 December 2008

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A keen sense of duty

Leande De Lisle on Stephen Alford's biography of William Cecil

Arts

Luminous landscapes

Oleg Vassiliev: Recent Works
Faggionato Fine Arts, 49 Albemarle Street, London W1, until 23 January 2009

Books

Surprising literary ventures

Willy and the Killer Kipper (1981) by Jeffrey Archer

Differences and similarities

West Workroom towards a new sobriety in architecture theory + practice, by Paolo Conrad-Bercah+w office (including contributions from Daniel Sherer, Pierluigi Panza and George Baird)

Style & Travel

Old is the new new

Damien Hirst’s two-day auction of spanking new works at Sotheby’s in September signalled the end of an era.

Play time

Living in an all-male household (husband, two sons, cosseted cat) has tended to colour my perception of technology.

The global force behind Mumbai’s agony is in our midst

Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi say that LET — the Army of the Righteous — is a worldwide Islamist organisation which is well-established in Britain. The Mumbai atrocities are further proof that the march of Islamic extremism is the central fact of our time

Stephen Schwartz

‘They treat me more like a devil than a god’

Lloyd Evans finds that Bernard-Henri Lévy is not the ageing French dandy of caricature but a serious intellectual with views on everything from Barack Obama to the Muslim veil

Lloyd Evans

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