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The Star-Spangled Banner’s surprising origins

Getty ImagesIt's one of the country's best-loved songs – but the US national anthem, recently performed by The Chicks at the Democratic National Convention, has an unexpectedly colourful past, and was even dismissed by critics as a "drinking song".The Chicks...

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12 of the best recent beach reads

Penguin Random House(Credit: Penguin Random House)From the follow-up to Colm Tóibín's beloved Brooklyn and Miranda July's "mid-life coming-of-age tale" to a "quirky time-travel romance", here are our picks for the recently published books you should pack in your late-summer getaway...

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