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Philosophies of taste
Does wine taste the same to an expert and an amateur? Cain Todd considers the distinctions between flavour and sensory experience
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What it means to be French
Nationhood, identity, anxiety: Sudhir Hazareesingh ponders constructions and deconstructions of Frenchness
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René Magritte, fifty years on
Roderick Conway Morris visits two museums dedicated to 'the most humane and witty of all Surrealist artists'
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Reading Ian McEwan’s correspondence
Lise Jaillant asks: what difference does it make for a researcher to work with emails rather than letters?
Twenty questions
Twenty Questions with M. John Harrison
If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? Graham Greene was right, you just shouldn’t publish your first three novels
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Stage fright and existential panic
John Stokes on the nightmarish experience of ‘being alone in public’
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Translation as activism
Bidisha reflects on the challenge of bringing poetry to international audiences
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Milton’s Satan and the struggle for power
Islam Issa considers how authoritarian governments and their rebels have engaged with Paradise Lost
Twenty questions
Twenty Questions with Jesmyn Ward
What author do you think is most underrated? Name most women writers. Name most writers of colour or queer writers or writers from marginalized communities