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Postcard from Italy: checking in at Europe’s highest hotel

No rough climbers’ refuge, the Glacier Hotel Grawand offers restaurant, cocktail bar and sauna — plus a link to an ancient ‘Iceman’

Samin Nosrat cooks chicken and chocolate cake chez Honey & Co

It’s not about the food — Jay Rayner on the secret of a great restaurant

The four horsemen of Europe’s tech dependency

Saddle up for how the digital economy shapes geopolitical power

Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz: ‘I will remain someone with a political opinion’

Chief Raoni: ‘The Amazon is our biggest chance to keep living on this Earth’

Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels — her personal story of her life and loves

The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in detail

Seamus Heaney: a new glimpse of his life and poetry

With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s creative process