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THE LOWDOWN
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Pop culture Is Dumbledore gay?
Snapshot: Paul Rée Free will is nonsense
REVIEW
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New books, etc honour, podcasts, dreams, samurai and goldfish
Author Q&A Nancy Sherman on soldiers’ inner battles
Imagine that Michelangelo behaving badly
Review of reviews What the critics said
LAST WORD
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My philosophy Toby Young alienates yet more people
The Skeptic Ghost writers
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