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Mar 1, 2013
For advocates of ‘big data’, the answers to many pressing problems lie in the very questions we ask online. But, asks James Harkin, will evidence from the servers of Google and its peers always send us in the right direction?
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Mar 1, 2013
A pair of music industry memoirs show management in step with the talent. The FT’s arts writer reviews ‘A Prince Among Stones’ and ‘The Soundtrack of My Life’
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Mar 1, 2013
Edith Pearlman’s remarkable short stories deserve to be discovered. Sam Leith reviews ‘Binocular Vision
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Mar 1, 2013
How writers have struggled to find words to describe great art. Jackie Wullschlager reviews ‘The Books that Shaped Art History’, edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
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Mar 1, 2013
A Czech artist’s childhood account of life in a concentration camp. Juliet Gardiner reviews ‘Helga’s Diary’, by Helga Weiss, translated by Neil Bermel
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Mar 1, 2013
The fantastical world of the du Mauriers. Peter J. Conradi reviews ‘Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters’, by Jane Dunn
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Mar 1, 2013
A massive Euro-hit, this sensual tale recoils from passion wherever it pops up. Tim Hayward reviews ‘The Chef’, by Martin Suter
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Mar 1, 2013
Reviews of ‘Ways of Going Home’, by Alejandro Zambra; ‘Narcopolis’, by Jeet Thayil
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Mar 1, 2013
Review of ‘Brain on Fire’, by Susannah Cahalan
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Feb 22, 2013
Why are so many people drawn to the restless scepticism of philosopher John Gray? Julian Baggini reviews ‘The Silence of Animals’