The myth of China’s “Great State“
The modern Chinese state claims to have always been one state with immutable borders – despite its many languages and…
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Black jokes, white humour
From sexualised mockery to pro-slavery propaganda, how Africans were caricatured in Georgian Britain.
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A life of Freudian slips
The painter Lucian Freud was reckless everywhere, except in front of a canvas.
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“Writing is always an act of hope”: Margaret Atwood on The Testaments
The novelist explains how Trump’s America shaped her bestselling sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Rebecca Solnit and the museum of misogyny
Rebecca Solnit steps into the culture wars with her new essay collection Whose Story is This?
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Poet Lemn Sissay’s My Name is Why: a powerful memoir of a childhood in the care system
In Amharic, “Lemn” means “Why?” – and Sissay spends his book trying to answer that question. Why were he and…
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East India Company: the original corporate raiders
How the British trading behemoth took control of 200 million people and one of the richest empires on Earth.
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is a gripping examination of what makes a home
A novel that makes the reader reflect upon how much anyone ever knows about a family, about the truth of…
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