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Shakespeare’s race problem

The playwright reflected the prejudices of his age, but he also questioned and undermined them.

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We admire trees for their solitary strength, but it is their remarkable facility for collaboration and sharing that provides lessons…

By Mark Cocker

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.

By Samuel Moyn

Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…

By Simon Ings

The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?

By Robert Colls

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By Jeremy Cliffe, Michael Prodger, India Bourke and Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Joanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can they…

By Anna Leszkiewicz

This year’s Wisden chronicles and fights back against the destruction of the summer game.

By Matthew Engel