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The rite of spring break
"Spring Breakers" is a middle-class fantasy of white trash culture -
Trial of the century
How two men dressed as women shocked Victorian Britain -
What Danish TV ignores
"Borgen" and "The Killing" portray a Denmark that no longer exists -
SpongeBob SquarePants takes over the Middle East
The cartoon character is ubiquitous in Egypt and beyond -
Life and death: Pompeii and Herculaneum
The British Museum's stunning new exhibition is a reminder that Italy must preserve its historic sites -
The last revolution
Pop changed the art world forever -
The 500 year war
Since the 15th century Europe has been the bloody battleground in a continent-wide struggle for power. But today war seems a distant threat. What changed? -
He always slips away
JM Coetzee’s new novel is a profound existential comedy. But what does it all mean?
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The year in books
Erotic fantasies, boastful autobiographies, science fiction bust-ups and troublesome judges—it’s been an eventful year for literature -
What women don’t want
Voluminous, sometimes silly, these books still show that the pursuit of power and happiness has not been futile -
Beyond the page
An iPad app for A Clockwork Orange points to an exciting future for fiction, even if it threatens the authority of the writer -
Art of the here and now
The extraordinary art of the Reformation was underpinned by a new certainty -
The month in books
Black holes, environmental catastrophe and disease—this month’s selection is not for the faint hearted -
We are all architects now
Megalomaniac building is going out of style. The best new design reshapes the past to fit the present -
Cult leader
Jane Austen inspires vicious feuds among her hordes of admirers -
Will performance art tank?
The Tate has opened the world’s first ever museum space for performance art. Can subversive art can survive in comfortable surroundings?
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Bach blows minds
Getting your head around the "Goldberg Variations" is like explaining the Milky Way -
Keep it real
Charlie Brooker: good at concepts, bad at people -
There is no “true” Africa
What the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Wole Soyinka gets wrong -
The cult of Donna Tartt
This autumn, Donna Tartt will return with her third novel. Why does her work inspire such devotion? -
Will China transform architecture?
The rise of the metaphor is just the start -
The shock of the neoliberal
How did neoliberalism triumph? -
Zero Dark Thirty tells the wrong truth
The hunt for bin Laden could make a great film. This isn’t it -
After the war
Croatia joins the EU this July. To understand the nation, read this novel
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