From its terse but over-determined title onwards – the metropolis itself, but also the wealth made and lost there – John Lanchester's fourth novel proclaims its ambitions. An aspirational novel about (mostly) aspirational people, it chooses on one level

If you think that street art can look a little cartoonish, you're right -- at least you will be on March 4th. LA street artists are taking over "The Simpsons." Season 23, Episode 15 is titled, "Exit Through The Kiwk-E-Mart," a play on fellow street artis

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"Fans and prospective buyers turn to Banksy's official website (banksy.co.uk) for photographic evidence of murals, and the second work in Liverpool does not appear online. However, the artist neither officially sanctions his murals online, nor signs the

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