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Why I wasn't in a band
In tribute to hard-working bands, I revisit songs I didn't like on first listen.
By Tom Ravenscroft
Art review: Grayson Perry at the British Museum
The Turner Prize-winning artist takes pleasure in his own skill.
Gerhard Richter: Panorama (Tate Modern)
Richter distrusts the perfection of his own art.
Terrible beauty
Good art does not give answers but asks questions.
Wuthering Heights (15)
A murky adaptation is flawed but full of passion.
The NS Interview: Miranda July, writer and film-maker
“It’s more interesting to play the person who makes mistakes”
Gilbey on film: Sleeping sickness
If a critic can't stay awake, it's not the film's fault.
Top Boy (Channel 4)
Rachel Cooke celebrates a young actor she never tires of watching.
Bouncing bombs and revising revisionism
What motivated those who sought to bust the Dam Busters? Documentary evidence or fashion?
Words and Music (Radio 3)
Antonia Quirke enjoys a mysterious merging of things literary and musical.
Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret (Channel 4)
Rachel Cooke is spooked by the resurrection of an ancient post-death ritual.
Holmes and away
Arthur Conan Doyle is cherished as the creator of one of the best-loved detectives in English literature – but his talents as an author ranged far and wide, from science fiction to swashbucklers.
Stop messing with Jane Austen!
Murder mysteries, zombie horror stories, eye-watering erotic novels - why does everyone rewrite Pride & Prejudice?
Books interview: Mark Doty
"There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem."
Reviews round-up
The critics' verdicts on Binyavanga Wainaina, Ken Livingstone and Carol Ann Duffy.
Music Review: The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera
Fiona Shaw's delightful direction of Mozart's great opera.
Crossing continents
The I, Culture Orchestra builds relationships in eastern Europe.
Theatre review: Death and the Maiden
Harold Pinter would have approved of the high moral seriousness of Ariel Dorfman's play.
Beethoven: the Symphonies (Barbican, London)
Alexandra Coghlan revels in a ferocious tribute to Beethoven.
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