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      What business can learn from failure; the price we pay for free speech; why sex is never about just sex; new novels by Mike McCormack, Jonathan Lethem and Walter Kempowski — plus Nilanjana Roy on the joy of best-of-year reading lists and an urgent warning about our warming planet from Baillie Gifford prizewinner John Vaillant

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