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Jimmy Carter’s energy policy, stadium rock, the death of Mao, fall of the Shah, The Sweeney and Roy of the Rovers feature as hot topics among Ian Plenderleith’s recommended reads
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Summerfield’s profoundly sad and beautiful photographs document two lives drawing to a close together, writes Sean O’Hagan
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Compact yet enormous in scope, this reissued guide to the capital has never been bettered
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‘What kind of artist are you?’ Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst and Ai Weiwei rub shoulders in Sarah Thornton’s take on the art world. By Marion Coutts
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Think your look is unique? Well, Hans Eijkelboom may have already put you among his tribes. Alexis Petridis meets the photographer who has spent 20 years spying on passersby
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Fighter planes breaking ranks, a forest growing from a man’s head, and a zebra making a run for it ... a new book called Concrete Canvas shows off the world’s most mind-boggling street art that merges with its environment
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