Female genital mutilation (FGM) is what it says it is: we were wrong to use the euphemisms "circumcised" and "circumcision" in a caption to a photograph of an Indonesian girl in tears after this "procedure" – which has very little in common with male circumcision (New Review, last week, page 11).

An interview with Cat Power referred to her album, The Greatest, but the release date was out by a decade. It came out in 2006, not 1996 ("This much I know", Magazine, 11 May, page 10).

"Grace Kelly: screen goddess, princess and an enduring source of scandal" (In Focus, 11 May, page 35), referred to fellow Hollywood star Rita Hayworth as having married the Aga Khan. In fact she married Prince Aly Khan, son of Aga Khan III, who never became Aga Khan. Aga Khan III bequeathed the title to Aly Khan's son Karim, who became Aga Khan IV on his grandfather's death.

Apologies to cooks baffled by a recipe for tomato, cucumber and radish soup which contained no tomatoes (Magazine, 18 May, page 44). The problem lay in the title: it's actually a recipe for red pepper, cucumber and radish soup. Bon appétit.

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