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Bernie Sanders: the president who never was

The politician’s new work is a limited and soporific harangue. How did he twice get close to becoming leader of…

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Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again is a missed chance – a sustained swipe at a government long gone…

By Stuart Maconie

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By Rachel Cunliffe, Christiana Bishop, Michael Prodger and Barney Horner

In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end up…

By Will Lloyd

From politics and Big Tech to history and identity, the essential books for the year ahead.

By Tom Gatti

His life was blighted by poverty, but his poetry made exhilarating connections between sex, faith and death.

By Rowan Williams

In Unfinished Business one of our finest cultural critics returns to fiction with a meditation on memory and national decline.

By John Burnside

We might be tempted to see prizes for women as less necessary with each passing year – but non-fiction is…

By Hannah Rose Woods