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Paul Krugman

The Nobel Prize-winning professor of economics talks to Martin Wolf about what Japan got right, what the Federal Reserve got wrong and how the eurozone can be saved

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For one night only!

It started as an informal read-through at a film director’s home but now Jason Reitman’s Live Reads are one of the hottest nights out in Los Angeles and New York

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Jubilee lines

Fitting tributes or tasteless trifles? Carola Long looks at how brands are marking the Queen’s 60 years on the throne

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The English landscape in literature

Wonder mingles with melancholy in five fine meditations on nature, writes John Sutherland

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‘The summer’s most pleasure-charged exhibition’

Jackie Wullschlager on Alex Katz, pre-eminent American painter of modern life

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Marilyn and Me: A new book and exhibition show rarely glimpsed sides of the blonde gentlemen preferred

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Saffron dust and holy lettuce

In the ancient and sacred city of Mardin, eastern Turkey, an ambitious restoration project is turning back the clock

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The good, the bad and the lovely

At Cannes Film Festival, serendipity and zeitgeist have produced a mix of themes – and quality

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Labour of love

Orlando Figes’ ‘Just Send Me Word’ tells how a couple’s struggle to outlast the Gulag illuminates the ordeal of millions, writes Simon Sebag Montefiore

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This sceptered style

Taking their cue from royals and aristocrats, the autumn 2012 collections feature an abundance of pomp and grandeur

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Canter culture

Robin Blake trots around the British Museum’s exhibition on the contribution of horses to human civilisations

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