Lisa Marie Presley takes us behind Graceland’s velvet curtain
From Here to the Great Unknown – a memoir of life as Elvis’s daughter – is a story of generational…
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Alexei Navalny’s chronicle of a death foretold
The enemy of Putin survived the first attempt on his life. His memoir Patriot reveals why he returned to Russia…
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David Goodhart’s care delusion
The UK faces a falling fertility rate and a crisis in social care. Must women bear the blame?
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Against the cult of profit
Making money for shareholders has become a fixation, John Kay’s new book shows – but it is a meagre definition…
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How Labour won – and how they could lose in 2029
New books by Anushka Asthana and Michael Ashcroft show that the lessons of 2024 are sobering for both parties.
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The making of Barbara Kingsolver
In Holding the Line, the author’s newly republished account of the 1983 Arizona miners’ strike, the novelist and the reporter…
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Richard Dawkins, the gene genie
The great scientist strays into speculation in The Genetic Book of the Dead, his latest defence of his “selfish gene”…
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Myths of the great statesmen
New studies of Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson show the rewards and perils of political biography.
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