John Lennon talking to Kingsley Amis at a Cape party
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Literary Lennon

The sale of an extraordinary archive sheds new light on John Lennon’s art, writes Peter Aspden

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This week saw the death of two leftwing stalwarts, Tony Benn and Bob Crow. Last year John McDermott examined the search for a popular left in Britain
Jenson Button
The F1 season gets under way this weekend. In 2011, John Reed joined championship-winning driver Jenson Button as he got behind the wheel of a McLaren supercar
Illustration by James Ferguson of Prince Turki al-Faisal
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Prince Turki al-Faisal

The man who headed Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service for 24 years talks to Edward Luce about equal rights for Saudi women, and which country has the best spies

The Radcliffe Camera building
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FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival

From Alexander McCall Smith on Auden to Margaret Atwood and Jim Al-Khalili, and more

Kate Moss
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This season’s best fashion books

From Oscar de la Renta to street style, what will make it on to the best-dressed bookshelves?

Karl Ove Knausgaard in May 2013
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Karl Ove Knausgaard

Emily Stokes on a Norwegian writer’s Proustian achievement

Martha Kearney

The Diary: Martha Kearney

The broadcaster meets Aung San Suu Kyi, star attraction at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival

Sierra Nevada mountains
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Culture and skiing in Granada

The Moorish city is the ideal destination for an alternative family ski trip

Paul Cézanne’s watercolour ‘Three Pears’ (1888-90)
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All roads lead back to Cézanne

From unmissable watercolours to the turbulence of Van Gogh, the Pearlman Collection – now in Europe for the first time – offers a fresh vision of modern painting

S/S 2014 by Paul Smith
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Sweatshirt chic

Casual pieces in luxury materials are finding a place in the wardrobes of chief executives

The Seaside Boarding House near the cliffs at Burton Bradstock, Dorset

West Country revival

Hoteliers are preparing to bounce back from a grim winter with a swathe of new openings

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