She was as highly regarded as W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot (1)
Lucy Walker, the director, talks about the Brazilians who make art from garbage (0)
Tom Standage plays the mobile-phone game that is life-stealingly addictive (1)
Reading up on the roots of the turmoil (10)
America’s FCIC report is big, surprisingly readable and a disappointment (2)
The most expensive works to come under the hammer (14)
Sportsmen are not supposed to get better at the end of their careers, but nobody told Ryan Giggs and Sachin Tendulkar
He was wise to ensure the ants got to him before any new enemies did
For years now the museum has been partly closed for rebuilding. William Fiennes likes it better that way—less Gallery Fatigue, more time for Vermeer and Rembrandt
The mystery of King George VI's stutter
(Slate): "'The King's Speech' raises more questions about stuttering than it answers"
Pip in Calcutta
(Independent): A new production of Dickens's "Great Expectations" is set in 19th-century India
That enigmatic smile
(Guardian): The identity of the "Mona Lisa" is known, yet speculation continues
“It’s as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.”
~ Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, on the information age, as quoted in, "How We Know" (New York Review of Books)
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