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Another brick in the Wall

The division of Berlin created a cage designed to stop a population fleeing. It was a triumph of East German…

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We can try to bend the novel to fit our politics or culture, but it will always go its own…

By Eimear McBride

Ultimately the point of literary prizes is to sell books, champion authors and give booksellers a hand, not to trigger…

By Stephen Bush

The memoir of the four-star general and Trump’s former secretary of defence is, in essence, about leadership.

By Emma Sky

The third volume of Charles Moore’s thrilling and fair-minded biography shows how Thatcher was felled by her own tragic flaws.

By Andrew Marr

The Scottish writer’s short-story collection is made up of eccentric accounts of the supernatural, the dystopian and the outright horror-filled.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The whistle-blower’s memoir is insightful, with a nice line in tech-inflected imagery.

By Steven Poole

Smith’s playful short stories reference #MeToo and Brexit but are at their best when they delve beyond the anxieties of…

By Anna Leszkiewicz