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How the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida became one of the most influential thinkers in the world.

By John Gray

We should start owning our reading and asking more serious questions about what place literary education has in our collective…

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

The author is “obsessed” with the notion of inherited trauma, a theme that appears in her books Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom.

By Sarah Manavis

We should all be grateful to this doughty, irrepressible woman who battled so hard and sacrificed so much to make…

By Melissa Benn

This detailed, academic book argues flawed leadership led to military disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By Anthony Loyd

By focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar family…

By Sophie McBain

The Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.

By New Statesman