Rebels Against the Raj: A morality tale for Modi’s nationalist India
A new history of the Westerners who fought with Gandhi to free India from British rule has lessons for the…
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What rocks teach us about the human condition
In Hugh Raffles' profound, genre-straddling new book, stones and minerals reveal the pain of loss and the secrets of time.
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How Sergei Magnitsky paid with his life for exposing Vladimir Putin’s financial corruption
A new book by Bill Browder reveals the bravery of a young lawyer who uncovered a £185m state-sponsored tax fraud.
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Reviewed in short: New books from David Bosco, Emma Smith, Charlotte Philby and John Agard
The Poseidon Project by Bosco, Portable Magic by Smith, Edith and Kim by Philby and Border Zone by Agard.
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Does the FA Cup need saving?
The competition, founded 150 years ago, has become a reflection of English football’s conflicted soul.
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The rise and fall of the literary bloke
John Walsh’s excitable account of carousing with Martin Amis and other “big beasts” of the Eighties is a paean to…
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Bill Gates on the pandemic: a misplaced faith in innovation
The tech billionaire believes business can shield us from future diseases – but the market is part of the problem.
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It’s his life: the secluded world of Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis
Uneasy with his fame and fiercely private, the post-rock pioneer left behind a musical legacy of extraordinary beauty.
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