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DASHBOARD ELVIS IS DEAD

French writer Duras, who died in 1996, is best known for her disturbing autobiographical novel The Lover, published when she was in her 70s

Dubious duck tale

Food for thought

A high school coming-of-age novel set in the west of Scotland and written in the Scots vernacular has been crowned the country’s book of the year.

HAVE you ever visited the Louvre, back when Anglo-French relations allowed such things, and found yourself in the gallery where the Old Masters are displayed? There you will discover a particularly well executed sketch by da Vinci, which goes by the name of the Mona Lisa. As this is a rather famous little etching, we may as well dispense with formalities and call her Mona. What art lovers usually do when visiting the Louvre is check out Mona’s enigmatic smile for a couple of minutes, then...