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The long shadows over English cricket

The latest Wisden reflects a turbulent year in which the sport has been forced to confront racism and incompetence.

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Daisy Dunn’s charismatic interwar history of Oxford illuminates the wide influence of the celebrated classicist and his circle.

By Leo Robson

A New Formation edited by Calum Jacobs, The Odyssey by Lara Williams, The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson and Glory…

By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, Sarah Manavis, Michael Prodger and Pippa Bailey

Two new books about our relationship to song prove there will always be new ways to write about music.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The most detailed study of the Labour leader so far charts his role in the Brexit wars and in the…

By Richard Seymour

Authoritarians and autocrats continue to flourish despite a long parade of inadequacy. Can liberal democracy strike back?

By Jeremy Cliffe

The exhilarating narrative explores the complex boundaries between the natural and man-made world in rural life.

By Philippa Nuttall

The ghost of a more interesting narrative hovers over Elizabeth Finch, which is a novel not of ideas but of…

By Johanna Thomas-Corr