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This week's reviews and features
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Audio
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Sarah Palin by Kaylene Johnson: 'Sarah's potential was realised when she came seventh in the Wasilla Miss Congeniality competition in 1979'
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Twenty years after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death, Andrew Anthony considers the repercussions
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Audio
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Philip Norman talks to Jon Dennis about his new biography John Lennon: The Life
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Review: Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie, translated by Adriana Hunter
AS Byatt is swept along by the story of a lost scroll and a lost language
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Essay: He smashed the china, soiled the sheets, sunbathed nude and was either drunk or stoned - Arthur Rimbaud was an impossible house guest, but he liberated the true poet in his lover Verlaine, writes Edmund White
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Classics: Maggie O'Farrell hails the reissue of The Yellow Wallpaper, a tale of marriage and madness
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From winged wonders to creepy crawlies, Mark Doty is impressed by the creatures that emerged from his workshop on encountering animals
