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Why the left is too starry-eyed on economics.

By Aditya Chakrabortty

The Wild Track by Reynolds, The God Equation by Kaku, The Manningtree Witches by Blakemore and Why Rebel by Griffiths.

By New Statesman

Why Philip Larkin’s lover deserved better than to be the butt of abusive caricatures.

By Margaret Drabble

The shared moral project of the next decade will be restoring the link between labour, community and a meaningful life.

By Rowan Williams

Philip Hoare explores how the artist’s obsession with science, magic and self-promotion paved the way for our existential age.

By Sue Prideaux

Thorn’s paean to her friend Lindy Morrison is much more than the dynamic of a personal relationship.

By Alex Clark

What is most disturbing in Blake Bailey’s biography is not Roth’s behaviour, but his biographer’s apparently unthinking alignment with it.

By Erica Wagner