Morning Call: No laughing matter

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The Reform leader now looks like the one who can’t take a joke, Jonn Elledge writes.

Every young artist has a private-school background or semi-famous parents. It wasn’t always like this.

War correspondent Sally Hayden’s new collection of dispatches is horrifying and tender

The director, one of the leading French nouvelle vague filmmakers, made the subject of criminality his speciality

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