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Adam Gopnik’s pursuit of the perfect sentence

The New Yorker journalist’s latest book, The Real Work, sheds light on a career spent obsessively attempting to master the…

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The year’s publishing highlights, including new novels by Salman Rushdie, Diana Evans and Eleanor Catton.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The historian is right that Britain’s colonial legacy is morally complex. So why is his defence of it so simplistic?

By Tomiwa Owolade

In 2017, a steamroller crushed the hard drive containing Pratchett’s unpublished material, as per his wishes. But this discovery is…

By Marc Burrows

Also featuring Brutes by Dizz Tate and The Turning Tide by Jon Gower.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey, Anna Leszkiewicz and India Bourke

A new history of the 17th century reminds us how bitter ideological conflicts have shaped our democracy.

By Rowan Williams

Assertive older women are treated like they shouldn’t exist.

By Ellen Pasternack

They were once considered far more lascivious than men – so how did women become the meeker sex?

By Rachel Cunliffe