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THE WORDS “Las Vegas” conjure up, in many minds, images of free-spending, tacky tourism. No surprise then that the local...
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Apr 30th 2022Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties. By David de Jong. Mariner Books; 400 pages; $28.99....
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Apr 30th 2022Operation Car Wash. By Jorge Pontes and Márcio Anselmo. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Bloomsbury; 208 pages; $27 and...
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WITH ALMOST 4,000 seats, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York is the largest indoor venue of its kind in...
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Apr 30th 2022Young Mungo. By Douglas Stuart. Grove Press; 400 pages; $27. Picador; £16.99MUCH IN “SHUGGIE BAIN” echoed Douglas Stuart’s...
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Apr 30th 2022“PROBABLY THE only thing one can really learn”, Philip Guston eventually concluded, “is the capacity to be able...
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Apr 27th 2022Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. By Katherine Rundell. Faber & Faber; 339 pages; £16.95. To be published...
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Apr 25th 2022The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, a town in south-eastern Bangladesh, are home to nearly 1m people from...