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The invention of God

David Baddiel’s new book argues that a deity that saves us from death is confected from human desire.

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Tim Marshall’s The Future of Geography shows how great powers – and Elon Musk – are looking to the stars…

By Lawrence Freedman

Also featuring My Father’s Brain by Sandeep Jauhar and The Seaside by Madeleine Bunting.

By Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger, Sophie McBain and Will Lloyd

Ian Dunt’s new book reveals Britain as a country of inept civil servants, deluded ministers, blinkered journalists and unscrutinised power.

By Harry Lambert

The Earth Transformed seeks to tell the story of climate change without confronting global capitalism. The result is a book…

By Geoff Mann

Alice Robb’s Don’t Think Dear reveals how the elite world of dance exerts a terrible physical and mental toll.

By Pippa Bailey

Travel was a vital part of the French thinker’s political philosophy, but this has largely been forgotten in today’s secluded…

By Nick Burns

By reckoning with Britain’s nasty side, the Conservatives have claimed its soul.

By Will Lloyd