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Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. Any art fan should celebrate that. Not just because it represented a profound triumph for free expression against the forces of authoritarianism and censorship, but because the thing was a bloody eyesore. The grey concrete was awful enough, but then the Berliners went and covered it in sodding graffiti.

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The Journal of a Chambermaid: The greatest novel you’ve never heard of

The Oxford Cinema & Café: A profile

W.H. Auden at the Bus Stop: In Praise of Intellectual Delay

The Case for Reincarnated Romances

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