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The Diary: Sheila Heti

The writer ponders the art of storytelling and of not being a bad girl

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Snakes and scientists in darkest Peru

Just two hours from Cusco, new flights bring tourists to track the jungle wildlife alongside the experts

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Giorgio Morandi, on show in London

The apparent simplicity of the artist’s work resonates in austere times, writes Jackie Wullschlager

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Paul Kennedy’s ‘Engineers of Victory’

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How fashion is using holograms

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Brecht on stage

Sarah Hemming looks at two new UK productions of the German playwright’s enduring work

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‘The Last Quarter of the Moon’

Kelly Falconer reviews Chi Zijian’s tale of nomadic lives threatened by politics and change in China

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