• Art or theft? The pesky culture politics of tomb raiding

Art or theft? The pesky culture politics of tomb raiding

Issue 1298

Art or theft? The pesky culture politics of tomb raiding

Art or theft? The pesky culture politics of tomb raiding

Meet the anti-Indiana Jones’ returning stolen artefacts to their homes

Also in this week’s magazine…

  • Give us our daily bread: How the nation’s independent bakers proved their worth after the Beast from the East shuddered our infrastructure to a halt
  • In Letter to My Younger Self, Irish author Bernard MacLaverty talks bad poems, how his novels chimed with the mood in the North of Ireland, and writing from a female point of view
  • How Black Lives Matter came from anger and women
  • And Ricky Gervais explains how it feels to be the seventh most influential person on Twitter…
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