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2010 World Cup: Is Africa football's unheralded star?

David Runciman: Why for all the hype is the World Cup shaped by, and in the interests of, a European elite?

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Tony Parsons: My hero Cyd Charisse

'When she danced she made the rest of the world melt away'

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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Week four: readers' responses
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe's new novel takes a voyage round a fragmented England. By Alex Clark

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The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy

Ian Sample salutes the hardy souls at the front line of scientific discovery
Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice

On inequality, injustice and the selfish society
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This account of a medical marvel both irritates and fascinates Hilary Mantel

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Audio short stories

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice: short story collections
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones

Mary Hoffman enjoys a beguiling account of a little-known artistic contest
Voltaire: A Life by Ian Davidson

Fionnùala Sinclair admires a portrait of a satirical playwright who became a champion of free speech

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How Not to Grow Up! by Richard Herring and My Family and Other Strangers by Jeremy Hardy

Phil Daoust sees two stand-up comedians react to the onset of middle age in very different ways
All Kinds of Magic by Piers Moore Ede

Ian Pindar on a search for enlightenment that doesn't stray too far from the well-trodden path
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford

Peter Forbes swaps his thinking cap for overalls

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Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman

Christopher Tayler on a new translation of a novel that was smothered by the KGB
The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi

Peter Bradshaw on a sweet family saga
Salvage by Robert Edric

Maggie Gee finds a striking vision of dystopia is not matched by its execution
Chicklit roundup

Six of the best reviewed by Laura Barnett

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In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut

Jan Morris finds serenity in a tale of wanderlust
Private Life by Jane Smiley

John Burnside on a masterly novel about a nightmarish marriage
Thrillers roundup

Innocent by Scott Turow | The Whisperers by John Connolly | Chosen by Lesley Glaister | Any Human Face by Charles Lambert

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A life in photography: Don McCullin

I saw 800 children dropping down dead in front of me. That turned me away from the gung-ho image of the war photographer

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Ten of the best towers in literature

John Mullan seeks out the high life

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The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs

SF Said enjoys a sharp, sensitive tale of early adolescence in the 1980s
The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems by Peter Porter

Adam Newey looks back on the prolific, compassionate Peter Porter's work

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Critical eye: reviews roundup

Chang-Rae Lee's The Surrendered, David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama and Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand that First Held Mine
Adam Thirlwell stares at graffiti in Beirut

'I started to invent A Chronology of My Life According to Things I Knew Nothing About'

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Arts and the new coalition government

After a decade of scaling new heights, the UK's arts institutions have been bracing themselves for drastic cuts. This week culture secretary Jeremy Hunt gave his inaugural speech. We asked leading figures for their response

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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

Blake Morrison looks at the history of voyeurism, from Actaeon to paparazzi hounding the Princess of Wales. A new exhibition shows how technology has given us fresh ways of satisfying our desire for a secret glimpse

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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Nicholas Lezard enjoys a dark corner of the Modernist project
The Saturday poem: Beauty by Paul Batchelor

After Baudelaire

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