Robert Kaplan’s tragic realism
Haunted by his misguided support for the Iraq War, the American writer turned to tragedy to understand the delusions of…
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How a bestselling novel reveals French sympathy for Putin
The Wizard of the Kremlin has provoked fierce debate in France, where support for Russia lingers on both the right…
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Helen Oyeyemi and Maddie Mortimer to judge the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
Tom Lee and Ellen Peirson-Hagger complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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Lying in State: exclusive extracts from Boris Johnson’s memoir
Britain’s greatest-ever statesman reveals the secrets of his time in office.
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From Don Paterson to Brigitte Reimann: new titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud and Sensational by Ashley Ward.
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The myth of America’s love affair with guns
In Bloodbath Nation Paul Auster says fixing the firearms crisis requires deep cultural change. What it really needs is political…
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a fixation…
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Bret Easton Ellis: “Wokeness is running out of room”
The Shards is the famously morbid author’s latest “trickster book”. He prefers cabinet shopping to culture wars now.
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