Ayn Rand
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Film history is littered with adaptations that didn’t do their literary source material justice. But the small screen’s longer format could be the ideal place for unwieldy texts
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Letters: We humans switch our genes on and off and tweak their effects by means of language. We can change our minds. We have free will
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Andrew Davies’s triumphant TV series has caused sales of Tolstoy’s epic to soar. Here are five more big reads to fill the gap – from Finnegans Wake to Gravity’s Rainbow. And every one is ripe for the small screen
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Letters: The ideological difference is not the intervention, which is functionally indispensable, but the underlying values
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A self-confessed ‘complete outsider in the City’, Joris Luyendijk reveals the best guides he’s found to this complex, sometimes terrifying world
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This government will be judged on three issues: Europe, the union of the UK and public spending. The trick is not to bring your preconceptions with you
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Atlas Shrugged author’s work, which she abandoned and adapted for the stage, will be released next year
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4 out of 5 stars.This mammoth production of the neocon classic shifts the focus to its enthralling and predatory femme fatale, writes Andrew Todd
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Alan Skinner: Trumpeted as a democratic broadening of the publishing field, 'authorpreneurialism' actually narrows the world of reading and writing
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Slavoj Žižek: Mandela must have died a bitter man. To honour his legacy we should focus on the unfulfilled promises his leadership gave rise to
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One celebrated the virtues of selfishness in a right-wingers' set text. The other's a billionaire mining magnate who once wrote a terrible poem. Or is it the other way round? Take our quiz
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Paul Harris: As GOP debates moderation, the Tea Party have found their champion in the rising star. Will he carry them to the presidency?
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Pants made from black luon fabric don't meet the company's standards and have been pulled from the shelves and website
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Rush’s 20-minute concept suite about Ayn Rand is one of rock’s most unlikely triumphs – even if the rest of the album is rubbish, writes Michael Hann
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Vincent Miller: As American Catholics, we believe that Catholic orthodoxy cannot be reconciled with libertarianism
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Nicholas Lezard on the evil roots of the American right
The Nico Project; The Fountainhead – review