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Ciarán Murphy: no place in an All-Ireland final for ordinary men
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Rumble in the Jungle: 40 years on from Muhammad Ali’s crowning glory
‘Not a single respected critic spoke up for him. He was 40-1 with some bookmakers and nearly every expert feared for his safety against the monster that was Foreman’
Word for Word: Poetry’s inspirational ubiquity
Whether in a book or on ‘Mad Men’, ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘The Simpsons’, poems change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world
James Salter: a long career, a late flourishing
For too long, perhaps, he was a writer’s writer – but James Salter’s reputation has matured with age
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Truth was much less important than fantasy and invention in the self-made world of the legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland
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