Arts & Culture
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Small screen, bigger picture
When the NS film critic Ryan Gilbey started watching the HBO series The Wire, cinema suddenly began to look compromised and conventional
Also in arts & culture
Sing out sisters
Muslim rap is developing a large following in the US and UK, yet female artists trying to break into the scene are often intimidated, or even threatened
Family matters
When Roger Wright became the Proms' new director, debate raged even in his own household about whether he should tamper with the Last Night
Two worlds collide
The king of bling Jay-Z was a strange choice to headline a hippie festival, but perhaps both he and his audience came away a little wiser
Let's hear it for the soul sister
The philosophical debate was all Greek to me, until Mary Warnock popped up
Let's get critical
Julian Baggini on why the art of having a moan is essential to public life
Ancient and modern
In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity. Jonathan Meades on a man who loved the past and hated his contemporaries
Father of invention
On Some Faraway Beach: the Life and Times of Brian Eno
David Sheppard
Orion Books, 480pp, £20
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Brilliant cruelty
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