Editors' picks
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As we celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, we ask is James Bond still just a Boy's Own adventure? Here, seven women examine the phenomenon
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The Greek and the sycophant
Kathryn Flett on The Duke: A Portrait Of Prince Philip | Teen Mum High | The World's Tallest Woman And Me
Features and reviews p2
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Who could be Nancy?
Missing TV panel member Zoe Tyler has her say here
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Bah, Humber
As the Duchess of York shows the residents of a Hull council estate how to revitalise their lives, local Rupert Creed offers her some advice -
Sibling wars
When actress sisters Olivia de Havilland and Jane Fontaine, now 90 and 91, recently refused to share the red carpet, they were not alone among celebrity sibling rivalries -
He's a straight kinda guy
If Barack Obama does make it into the White House, his shrewdness at the poker table will surely be invaluable, says Anthony Holden
Features and reviews p3
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The Bond dossier
From Ian Fleming's love life to product placement, we tell you all the trivia you need to know about 007
Features and reviews p4
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Why I had to lie to my dying mother
David Rieff, son of American writer Susan Sontag, recalls how he colluded with his mother's fantasy that she wasn't dying
Features and reviews p8
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Return of the great rap rebel
On the 20th anniversary of Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, leader Chuck D tells Sean O'Hagan why now is the right time to re-form
Features and reviews p10
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Time for curtain to fall on Brecht
Nick Cohen: Nothing, not the mountains of corpses or the cults of the personality, could shake Brecht's confidence. He preferred silence about the vast crimes of the Bolsheviks
Features and reviews p11
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Not your average White band
A brilliant new album, a thrilling set, a deliriously happy audience...and all merely a sideshow for Jack White, a guitarist in a class of his own, writes Kitty Empire
Features and reviews p13
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Philip French's screen legends
Myrna Loy 1905-93
Features and reviews p14
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Outpost
Philip French: The British Outpost sports the familiar plot of a band of not-so-innocent folk beset by strange forces when they venture into the remote countryside -
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Philip French: After spending an hour suggesting that three sinister CIA agents were out to get Bobby, it pulls the carpet from under its own feet -
Caramel
Philip French: It's good to see a movie from Lebanon in which people aren't dodging shells every couple of minutes -
Shutter
Philip French: Shutter is a Hollywood version of a Thai movie, transposed to Japan -
Charlie Bartlett
Philip French: Jon Poll's Charlie Bartlett is an attempt to make a different sort of high school picture along the lines of Ferris Bueller's Day Off -
Smart People
Philip French: Dennis Quaid is excellent as a teacher of Eng Lit, mostly Victorian, at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh -
Some Came Running
Philip French: A masterwork with a great performance from Dean Martin -
La Antena
Philip French: His story is a comic fable about the villainous Mr TV who uses some outlandish technology to rob an Argentinian city of speech, leaving its inhabitants only words -
The Air I Breathe
Philip French: The inspiration is an Asian proverb that couldn't fight its way out of a wet fortune cookie
Features and reviews p15
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Carnage on the Croisette
Armageddon has never looked so ravishing as in this powerful crop of Cannes contenders, writes Jason Solomons
Features and reviews p16
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Whatever you say, say something...
Nick Clarke's widow explores bereavement, while the Afternoon Play is let loose on the menopause
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Four for the Turner
Laura Cumming on the most obscure shortlist in the history of the Turner Prize -
A talent gone down the tube
His underground connections put Britart on the map, but today Simon Patterson's going nowhere, says Laura Cumming
Features and reviews p17
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Eat up your Brecht fest
The Young Vic make Brecht almost palatable as the Old Vic shakes up vintage Shaw, says Susannah Clapp -
Kings of a great long weekend
Anthony Holden: The RSC's cycle of Shakespeare's history plays has been the ultimate cultural marathon, exhilarating audiences and showcasing an army of new talent
Features and reviews p18
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He came, he sang, he conquered
Anthony Holden: A stellar cast was put in the shade by a simply unforgettable performance from Jonas Kauffman
Features and reviews p19
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Washington under fire
DVD of the week: In The Valley of Elah -
Little house in the big woods...
CD of the week: Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Features and reviews p20
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A fine Mersey Molière
Tartuffe demands a brazenly theatrical performance, and that's what we get, writes Clare Brennan -
This Face fits in the West End
That Face's emotional intensity remains very much alive, writes Killian Fox -
Yet another identity crisis
Luke Jennings finds Akram Khan's collaboration with the National Ballet of China to be both galvanic and formulaic -
The Renaissance reaches Leicester
Two ambitious new projects bring a touch of class to the East Midlands - and sharp contrasts to much of the town centre
Features and reviews p21
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Days of whine and poses
There's gossip galore, but Cherie Blair's Speaking for Myself does no one, least of all herself, any favours, says Barbara Ellen
Features and reviews p23
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It began with a lynching
Passions run high in North Dakota in Louise Erdrich's brilliant, apocalyptic tale The Plague of Doves, says Lara Feigel -
When the swashbuckling had to stop
Alexandre Dumas's The Last Cavalier brings the swaggering bravado of the musketeers into the Napoleonic era, says Peter Conrad
Features and reviews p24
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Dismantling the Library by Stephen Romer
The removal of the honeycomb
or the hornet's nest
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Which came first: life or art?
Stephen Romer's Yellow Studio, an examination of 'this literary thing', is rich in pleasing wordplay, says Adam Phillips -
With honourable friends like these ...
Lord Michael Levy's A Question of Honour lacks honour and interesting questions, says Roy Hattersley
Features and reviews p25
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A real backwards man
An English dreamer stuck on the past is brought to life in Kitty Hauser's Bloody Old Britain, says Simon Garfield
Features and reviews p26
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The landscape artist
John Burnside's Glister is a moving and beautifully observed portrait of adolescence and deprivation, says Euan Ferguson -
Secrets from inside the world of Aids
Elizabeth Pisani's The Wisdom of Whores reports from the streets on the deadly perils of the sex trade, says Stephanie Merritt
Features and reviews p27
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Inner space
Heather Thompson on When We Were Romans | The Gravedigger's Daughter | The Snake Stone -
Human interest
Olivia Laing on Cheating at Canasta -
Lost at sea
Rachel Redford on Sea of Poppies -
Counting the cost
Heather Thompson on The Shock Doctrine | Phantasmagoria | William Wilberforce | An Ocean of Air
