From Philip Ball to Rachael Allen: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring My Friends by Hisham Matar and Veiled Threat by Nadeine Asbal.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Also featuring My Friends by Hisham Matar and Veiled Threat by Nadeine Asbal.
ByFrom Mussolini to Mao, autocrats have often turned to writers to tighten their grip on power.
ByThe Chinese leader’s political doctrine seeks nothing less than to remake the world order.
BySathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld captures the complexity of British imperialism’s legacy – but can its injustices yet be undone?
ByRobert Hardman’s obsequious biography pays court to a monarch who is enjoying his power over a deferential nation.
ByTimothy Garton Ash’s account of the Solidarity movement shows how Poland has resisted Russian control, and led me to a…
ByAlso featuring Deterring Armageddon by Peter Apps and Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills.
ByLola Seaton and Abigail Shinn complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
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