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Egypt and beyond

Euphoria has given way to impatience in the year since Mubarak’s fall, yet is it too early to lose faith in the Arab spring?

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The future of libraries

Britain will regret the current wave of public library closures but that does not mean its network must stay the same, writes Matthew Engel

Vladimir Putin Jan 27, 2012

Russia’s master of nostalgia

John Lloyd reviews four books on Russia, and Putin’s grip on power, among them ‘The Strongman’ by Angus Roxburgh and ‘It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway’, by David Satter

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Do we need religion?

Stephen Cave reviews works exploring this question including Alain de Botton’s ‘Religion for Atheists’ and Alex Rosenberg’s ‘The Atheist’s Guide to Reality’

Jan 13, 2012

Mind your language

The self-appointed guardians of standards in English may struggle to keep up but at least they care. Review by Michael Skapinker

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George B. N. Ayittey explains why undermining dictators is a science that requires time

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Shalom Auslander: If I could own any painting, what would it be? ‘The Scream’. Something I can put on the ceiling

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A century of the ANC

Two books explore the extraordinary record of the African National Congress as it turns 100. Review by Alec Russell

An undated photo of novelist Charles Dickens Dec 23, 2011

Great contradictions

Radical, romantic, mythmaker – as his bicentenary nears, Charles Dickens still presents many faces to biographers. By Henry Hitchings

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Rapping and rolling in it

Ed Crooks on how commercial success has propelled hip-hop’s superstars into the US business elite

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All about David Hockney

Attempts to fix the artist’s place in history coincide with a Royal Academy exhibition of his work

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Nudge thyself

Economists have rather more to learn from the natural sciences if they are to claim a realistic model of human behaviour

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