Salman Rushdie’s warning bell
His memoir Knife is a defence of free speech for a new age of intolerance. We should listen.
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What’s the point of Liz Truss?
In Ten Years to Save the West, Truss has lessons for the Conservative Party. They’re just not the ones she…
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Percival Everett’s American absurd
The author behind American Fiction on rewriting Mark Twain, the evolution of racism, and his addiction to irony.
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city
Caledonian Road is a brick of a novel lobbed at the towering glass houses of London.
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The fight to save the fractured Union
In an age of political alienation and resurgent nationalism, can the United Kingdom still hold?
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The book that shaped my green politics
I hadn’t connected the women’s and environmental movements until I found Jonathan Porritt’s Seeing Green. A lightbulb moment followed.
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