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Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. . . In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

Articles in this issue: Politics Business The weekly cartoon This week’s covers Britain’s leader has found purpose abroad. He needs it at home too Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America The demise of foreign aid offers an opportunity A fantastic start for Friedrich Merz The lesson from Trump’s Ukrainian weapons freeze Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative Letters to the editor Camille Grand on why Ukraine’s future turns on security guarantees It’s time to treat sexual violence in war as torture, writes a UN rapporteur Syria has got rid of Bashar al-Assad, but not sectarian tensions Syria’s economy, still strangled by sanctions, is on its knees Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGE DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media ...