Paul Kagame: the hidden dictator
How Paul Kagame’s Rwandan regime wooed the global elite.
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Reviewed in Short: New books by Gwendoline Riley, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Spitzer and Matthew d’Ancona
Our writers review My Phantoms by Riley, The Committed by Nguyen, The Musical Human by Spitzer and Identity, Ignorance, Innovation by d’Ancona.
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Gwendoline Riley: “I’m interested in a person’s helplessness, how people are incorrigible”
The writer on why the word “gaslighting” has lost all meaning, squirrels and her sixth novel, My Phantoms.
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When illness is invisible
Could a better understanding of how society affects sickness and the brain help us solve medical mysteries?
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Edward St Aubyn’s Double Blind is a clumsy critique of modern science
The novel veers between jet-setting farce and musings on recent issues of Current Biology.
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AA Milne’s pacifism and patriotism
A survivor of the Somme, the man who invented Winnie-the-Pooh wrangled with his conscience in his non-fiction – trying to…
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Horatio Clare on madness, misconceptions and the power of writing
The travel writer’s latest book, Heavy Light, documents his own psychotic breakdown and what he thinks we get wrong about treating…
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Paul Kingsnorth and the new climate fiction
Alexandria falls into the now well-established genre of “cli-fi” novels: dystopias that engage directly with the hell we are calling…
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