The best new children’s books for the coronavirus crisis
From hugless friends to heroic mice, these are the best stories to get your kids through the pandemic.
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How the Beatles changed the world in seven years
Craig Brown’s One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time explores how, in less than a decade, the band redefined…
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Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: when technology seeks to replace biology
Midway through Jenny Kleeman’s entertaining survey of the latest advances in life sciences, I began to worry.
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From Ovid to Covid: why poetry is enjoying a renaissance
Throughout the pandemic, poetry has been mobilised as a source of consolation and a powerful form of self-expression.
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The rise and fall of the Great British gangster memoir
How the popularity of true crime ended the golden era of self-consciously hammy autobiographies by reformed East End criminals.
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The pandemic letters
The novelist Sarah Perry and the oncologist Sam Guglani discuss the capacity of both medicine and art to respond to…
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How to stop a pandemic
Our leaders must learn from the Covid-19 crisis to prepare for the next virus.
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How Zora Neale Hurston rewrote the rule book
Exploring the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance writer, who went on to influence generations of writers, from Toni Morrison to…
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