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Jack Kerouac’s contested legacy

Dismissed in later life as a “mystic boob”, the Beat novelist still haunts modern American mythology.

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The writer has stayed vital through constant movement and insisting on “living in the world as it is, not as…

By Lamorna Ash

Also featuring Life in the Balance by Jim Down and Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza.

By Samir Jeraj, Anoosh Chakelian, Michael Prodger and Sarah Dawood

How should we spend our hours in the age of burnout? Arguably not by reading Jenny Odell’s frustrating new book,…

By Hettie O'Brien

Kleptocracy corrodes democracy and benefits autocrats, argues Raymond Baker in Invisible Millions. Joe Biden should be taking notes.

By Ben Judah

Releasing bowdlerised books into a predictable storm of ridicule and then making the “classic texts” available is clever business.

By Andrew Marr

How political expediency overrides logic and fairness in the UK’s chaotic finances.

By Will Dunn

Also featuring Deep Down by Imogen West-Knights and Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent.

By Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Tom Gatti and Christiana Bishop