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How we misunderstand depression

Psychological condition or biological disease? Three new books examine the causes and cures of an endemic mental health problem.

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A new book, Francis Bacon: Revelations, shows the painter as he tried to recapture the intensity of wartime when the…

By Andrew Marr

While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented flawed worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one.

By John Gray

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Flanagan, The Alignment Problem by Christian, The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic…

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Why a book on the twilight of the Habsburg empire is being read again in a time of pandemic, closed…

By Jeremy Cliffe

Fred D’Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

A new book argues that people-trafficking was once “an essential part of British national life”.

By David Reynolds

What might happen to the entire planet, when humanity shrinks away?

By Kathleen Jamie