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Stephen King’s Carrie and the horror of girlhood

The triumph of the writer’s debut novel, published 50 years ago, is its understanding of a teenage girl’s destructive anger.

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In the beginning there were many different sons of God – Western Christianity triumphed not by destiny but accident.

By John Gray

The cruelties of Maidwell Hall boarding school, described by Charles Spencer in his memoir, have blighted my adult life.

By Andrew Motion

In Why We Die, Venki Ramakrishnan demolishes the crackpots and billionaires behind the anti-ageing industry.

By Anjana Ahuja

She was a lawyer for 15 years, then left to become a playwright. The resulting work has shifted approaches to…

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.

By Ed Smith

An amazing tale of survival reminds me how incredibly hard it is to find love out there in the world.

By Tracey Thorn

Gustavo Gutiérrez’s revelatory book showed me that faith and economics could not be separated.

By Chris Bryant