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America turns 250
Features
Richard Ovenden
Trump’s presidential library isn’t for the people. It’s for him
The purpose of a presidential library is to allow future generations to pass judgment and take lessons from history. Donald Trump has other ideas
Books
Tina Brown
A gold-embossed tyrant
The former New Yorker editor reads the definitive account of how the 47th president learned to govern on impulse, greed and revenge
Photography
Tari Joshi
The grid: passport to the soul
By repeatedly embellishing a portrait of her father taken for his immigration to the US from Guyana, photographer Keisha Scarville explores ideas of migration, identity and belonging
The critics
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Classical
Fiona Maddocks
Aldeburgh festival – there’s something in sea air
The annual gathering at Snape Maltings has Britten at its heart, but a whole world of talent at its fingertips. Plus energetic Haydn from the English Baroque Soloists
Audio
Jude Rogers
The Last 12 Weeks – doing time with the Desert Killer
Hosted by Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Maurice Chammah, Serial’s bracing look at a life on death row is a true crime triumph. Plus, Illuminated’s moving tale of friendship
Culture Society, identity and belonging
Susannah Clapp
The Misanthrope for an age of female rage
Sandra Oh is a fiery presence as the hateful hypocrite of Martin Crimp’s gender-swap Molière
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Books
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Killian Fox
In Togetherness, Rowan Hooper celebrates nature’s brilliant double acts
The science journalist digs into the profound interconnectedness of life in his ambitious study of symbiosis
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: the view from the corner table
Holly Pester finds inspiration in cafes, while Helen Mort delights in subverting stepmother cliches
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Natural Disaster chronicles the mother’s lot in frank and funny style
Lisa Owens’s new novel charts how one woman’s day with her sons descends into self-recriminations and strife
