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From the new film of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ to ‘Harry Potter’, the UK is obsessed with a past that never existed

If our values are expressed by what money can buy, those values have gone nuts

The film industry loves a mathematician. So why can’t it get beyond the fevered prodigy scribbling equations on windows?

In describing his protagonist Roger Casement, Mario Vargas Llosa talks about how readers will never quite accept an imperfect hero

The 2005 Booker prize winner says his books embarrass him because they are a far cry from what he set out to achieve — perfection