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To indulge in the brutality of turning one of the most sophisticated intellects in politics into a one-dimensional man is a crime against good taste

Change is more than an abstraction animated. It is a collection of synonyms for the next point in the grand ellipse of hope

The dangers of making seditionists out of comic-strip revolutionaries

How much does it take to be an artist under Soviet communism? Julian Barnes' exquisite portrait of a tormented musical genius

A celebration of storytelling

And still we cannot have an honest conversation on Islam

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…