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My body & soul | Life and style

Are you healthy? Not bad. Having children means I now look after myself more than I used to. I don't go out partying so much. I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food I'm a bit of a grazer. I hate feeling full,

Royal Ascot 2023 day two: Frankie Dettori ends drought on Gregory in Queens Vase as it happen

We had to wait till near the end of day two but it was definitely worth the wait for the first winner at this meeting from Frankie Dettori who is, and you may not have read this anywhere, riding at his final Royal Ascot. From the moment I first saw the Italian live at

The House of Mirth: Jennifer Egan on Edith Whartons masterpiece

Set in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, with a widening income gap comparable to our own, The House of Mirth is a relevant and electrifying classic for our times The House of Mirth was the first literary classic that I picked up entirely on my own, without prodding from a teacher or

Top 10 homecomings in fiction

From Colm Tibn to Margaret Atwood and Yaa Gyasi, these stories reflect on the ambivalent complications of going back to where youre from With lockdown stretching on, one thing my friends and I are quietly admitting to each other is that we feel homesick. Homesick for life as it was, of course, but also for

US intelligence errors helped build myth of Nazi Alpine redoubt, says historian | Second world war

New book claims intercepted cables sent in second world war by Allen Dulles, later head of CIA, enabled disinformation campaign A US spymaster inadvertently helped the Nazis develop one of the most effective disinformation campaigns of the second world war by spreading rumours about Hitlers plans for a Where Eagles Dare-style Alpine redoubt, a historian