Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows

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Ali Smith Glyph288pp. Hamish Hamilton. £20. The pleasures of Ali Smith’s work stem from its application of an essentially modernist sensibility to up-to-the-minute subject matter, a combination that h