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    Books Of The Month
    By Oliver K Langmead Langmead made his debut in 2015 with Dark Star, a science fiction/noir detective story in iambic pentameter. After two SF novels in prose, he returns to the long-form poem with this epic tale of a bold plan to bioengineer a new h
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    Tall Tales Children Flock To The Storyteller Of Karachi
    Pedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi’s crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting on the ground, listening to a man reading aloud from a book. The eight-year-old gets off her bike, slips off her sandals, and
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    Some May Complain, But The Din Of Rural Life Is Exactly Why I Love It
    The French parliament is taking aim at noise complaints in the countryside. Lawmakers say they are well acquainted with the problem of residents who have moved to the countryside from the big cities bemoaning the way livestock, church bells and other
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    Should We Share Our Love Letters From Previous Relationships?
    We are in our mid-80s and have been together for 12 years. Our relationship journeys to our meeting point were utterly different. My partner has two marriages behind her as well as a long-term partner. Mine was a marriage of more than 40 years. My pa
    Guardian Weekly4 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Can AI Make Intelligent Art?
    Two people dressed in black are kneeling on the floor, so still that they must surely be in pain. If they are grimacing, there would be no way to know – their features are obscured by oversized, smooth gold masks, as though they have buried their fac
    Guardian Weekly8 min readAmerican Government
    Global Report
    The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said the country would respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack last weekend, but it was unclear what form that response would take and whether it would be so forceful that it could tip
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    Eyewitness Greece
    Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia The weekly magazine has an international focus and three edi
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    The Sniff Test Should Gadgets Appeal To Our Better Senses?
    ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothing yet.” So went the first line of audible dialogue in a feature film, 1927’s The Jazz Singer. It was one of the first times that mass media had conveyed the sight and sound of a scene together, and
    Guardian Weekly4 min readInternational Relations
    On The Brink
    Last weekend’s largescale attack by Iran on Israel may have passed with relatively little damage, but it mark ed a significant transformation in the conflict between the two enemies. A war that has long been fought through proxies, assassinations and
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    Deaths
    British theoretical physicist whose name was attached to the Higgs boson, a sign of the mechanism underlying the structure of atoms. He died on 8 April, aged 94. Former American football star who was acquitted of murder in 1995. He died on 10 April,
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    Diversions
    Thomas Eaton 1 Rebecca Andrews was the first recorded victim of what in 1665? 2 What drink is Jinro, the world’s bestselling spirit brand? 3 What payment to authors is capped at £6,600? 4 What is the highest peak in Northern Ireland? 5 Which cetacean
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    Assertion Of Dignity
    There is no shortage of big tomes about Africa written by old Africa hands – those white journalists, memoirists, travel writers or novelists who know Africa better than Africans. This genre, lampooned by Binyavanga Wainaina’s satirical essay How to
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    Reviews
    Yinka Shonibare CBE Serpentine Gallery, London Yinka Shonibare CBE offers a witty, weirdly beautiful conclusion to the debate over public statues that has raged since Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol four years ago. Except I don’t think Shonibar
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    Ripley: A Psychopath Made For Social Media
    He’s back. But he never went away. Patricia Highsmith’s diabolically inspired postwar creation Tom Ripley has returned, to luxuriate in our 21st-century age of Instagram lifestyle envy, tacit class paranoia and online identity fraud. He has triumphan
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    New Wave
    Radical changes of direction seem to require a great deal of drama, at least in the recounting: a decisive moment, a flight from unhappiness, a marshalling of immense internal reserves. In truth, they are often more gently under determined than that,
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    Letters
    Letters for publication weekly.letters@theguardian.com Please include a full postal address and a reference to the article. We may edit letters. Submission and publication of all letters is subject to our terms and conditions, see: THEGUARDIAN.COM/LE
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    The Many Ways To Cook Orzo, From Soups To Risottos And Sweet Dishes
    What’s the best way to cook orzo? “Orzo reminds me of being a child,” says Jacob Kenedy, chef/owner of Bocca di Lupo in London. “It’s very comforting, and you can eat it with a spoon.” In Italy the word orzo means “‘barley”, and the pasta we know as
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    Open Up Your World View
    The Guardian Weekly takes you beyond the headlines to give you a deeper understanding of the issues that really matter. Subscribe today and take your time over handpicked articles from the Guardian and Observer, delivered for free wherever you are in
    Guardian Weekly4 min readInternational Relations
    Iran’s Attack Has Shifted Focus From Aid Effort
    Iran’s attack on Israel tested the country’s air defences, but repaired – at least temporarily – Tel Aviv’s fractured relationship with Washington, and pushed the war and the looming famine in Gaza out of the headlines and down the diplomatic agenda.
    Guardian Weekly3 min readAmerican Government
    Backpedalling Why Arizona’s Abortion Ban Is A Republican Nightmare
    When the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, Republicans across the country cheered. Freed from Roe’s regulations, GOP lawmakers promptly blanketed the south and midwest in near-total abortion bans. But, after a string of electoral losses
    Guardian Weekly6 min readWorld
    The Stolen Schoolgirls
    When her Boko Haram captors told Margret Yama she would be going home, she thought it was a trick. She and the other girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok, in north-east Nigeria’s Borno state, had been held for three years and had been taunted
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    Science And Environment
    Octopuses could lose vision and struggle to survive due to heat stress by the end of the century if ocean temperatures continue to rise at the projected rate, a study published on the Wiley Network claims. The research found heat stress from global w
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    Strat’s The One
    ‘I found the cheapest Strat in all the shops,” says Nile Rodgers, speaking to me from Miami Beach, the very place he went trawling for what would later be regarded as the world’s greatest electric guitar. “I traded in my Gibson Barney Kessel. The guy
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    Huck Reimagined
    Percival Everett’s new novel lures the reader in with the brilliant simplicity of its central conceit. James is the retelling of Mark Twain’s 1884 classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the point of view of Jim, the runaway slave who joins Huc
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    Russia ‘Is Waging An Energy War’ Against Kyiv
    A dramatic rise in European energy prices is inevitable if the Russian destruction of Ukrainian energy infrastructure continues unabated, the former chief executive of Ukraine’s state-owned oil company has warned. Andriy Kobolyev, a former head of Na
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    Second Coming For Notre Dame’s Salvaged Artworks
    There was a moment on 15 April 2019 as the flames consuming Notre Dame Cathedral roared into the evening sky when it seemed all would be lost. Miraculously, firefighters stopped the blaze reaching the bell towers – whose collapse would have almost ce
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    Taxing Times Non-doms May Flee Over Labour Plans
    ‘People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah, the chief executive of Blick Rothenberg, an accountancy firm that specialises in advising very rich “non-doms” on their tax. Shah said his clients were “petrified” of plans to ab
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    The Benign Beef Farm Is A Myth, So Beware The New Eco-documentary
    We draw our moral lines in arbitrary places. We might believe we’re guided only by universal values and facts, but often we’re swayed by themes we might be unaware of. We tend to associate the imagery of our earliest childhood with what is good and r
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    Pilgrimage Has Become A Spiritual Exercise For A New Generation Of Wayfarers
    In Geoffrey Chaucer’s England, the arrival of spring was taken by many as a cue to take to the road. As the prologue to The Canterbury Tales begins: “When in April the sweet showers fall / And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all / … Then
    Guardian Weekly4 min readInternational Relations
    For A Year, The Bodies Have Piled Up – And Still The World Looks Away
    One year ago this week, Sudan descended into war. The toll so far is catastrophic. Thousands are dead, and millions are displaced, with hunger and disease ravaging all in the absence of aid. The UN has called the situation “one of the worst humanitar

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