Robert Harris: “Great politicians are like novelists”
The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.
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How to be human in an age of AI
New technologies cannot replace the pleasure and self-expression of living.
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How motherhood was weaponised
Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.
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The Queen’s greatest act
Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around the Queen shows how Elizabeth II reflected her subjects back at themselves.
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How racist are British schools?
Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The…
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From Andrea di Robilant to Simon Morrison: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud and True Love by Paddy Crewe.
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Inside the court of Adolf Hitler
Richard J Evans’s group biography of the Third Reich’s enforcers provides a revelatory account of the Nazi mind.
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Women and the shame of eating
Two new books show that the female appetite remains a source of danger and shame.
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