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    The Winter Olympics is a dazzling spectacle – but on the ground in Italy the mood is darker

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    Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date

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    TV review
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  4. No Good Men by Shahrbanoo Sadat.

    Berlin film festival
    ‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom

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    Metal
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    Experimental album of the month
    Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: Anata review – an ear-splitting haze that heals as it hurts

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    Audiobooks
    The Uncool by Cameron Crowe audiobook review – memoir of an awestruck insider

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    Music
    From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!

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    History books
    Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma – how Berliners defied their Nazi masters

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    Paperbacks
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    Pokémon
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  2. Reanimal

    Platform games
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    Pushing Buttons
    Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of ‘video game films’?

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    Review
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    Film
    Wuthering Heights set to ravish Valentine’s weekend box office

  3. Venus and Cupid by Artemisia Gentileschi.

    Art
    ‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes

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    Film
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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
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Health & fitness

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    Pass notes
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    Life
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    Health
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Fashion & beauty

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