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The variety of plants and animals in the world has fallen to dangerously low levels, but gardeners can take modest measures to encourage biodiversity
Dig In: The draw of straw at a scarecrow show
The All-Ireland Scarecrow Championship at Durrow, Co Laois, includes Mad Hatters and a runaway bride; a previous winner was inspired by Miley Cyrus
Deborah Smith: Publishing is an industry, but translation is a community
Sharing the Man Booker International prize is proper recognition for the art form of translation, says translator Deborah Smith, winner of the Man Booker International prize along with with Korean author Han Kang for ‘The Vegetarian’
Rob Doyle: ‘It would be nice to shock people, but I think that’s long gone’
Depictions of sex, drugs and alcohol no longer take us aback, according to the Irish author. The power of his new book, ‘This Is the Ritual’, comes from its ability to unnerve
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Chloe Dewe Mathews visited sites where first World War servicemen were executed
Five takeaways from Iran nuclear deal
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Alain de Botton and Douglas Coupland: 21st-century industrial espionage
Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations
Another great day at sea as Geoff Dyer joins the crew of US warship
Essayist Geoff Dyer spent two weeks on board a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf. His fiction-fuelled insights have been published as a book
Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzsche’s morals and stone-cold classics
‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’
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