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December 2017 / January 2018
Readers of the Guardian are still ruminating over the “Long Read” essay by the paper’s Editor-in-chief Katharine (“Kath”) Viner that appeared on November 16. After several thousand words about the paper’s
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December 2017 / January 2018
When it comes to walking, be independent and indefatigable, like Jane Austen's heroines — and Jane Austen herself
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December 2017 / January 2018
The original designs of the Thames Tunnel were auctioned at Bonhams in London for £200,000 in November
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December 2017 / January 2018
Hilary Spurling's biography of Anthony Powell contains a surprising revelation: that Powell's wife had an affair during the Second World War
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