The best of the academic presses for autumn 2024
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Alan Garner’s living tapestry
The novelist’s creative life was woven from a childhood in northern England’s mythic landscape.
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Marie Curie’s modest revolution
A reluctant celebrity who coined the term “radioactivity”, she transformed the perception of women in science.
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Malcolm Gladwell’s cult of smartness
The educated rationalists addressed by Revenge of the Tipping Point are sometimes the dumbest – and baddest – of them…
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Why Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Han, the first South Korean author to win the award, tackles humanity “from the sublime to the brutal” in her…
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The two sides of Boris Johnson
His memoir Unleashed contains surprising moments of candour – but they are swept away on a tide of shameless self-justification.
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From Robert McCrum to Adrian Tinniswood: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Taking the Lead by John Crace and The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
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Timothy Snyder’s liberty bell
The historian’s account of the failures of American freedom is earnest and uneven, but its message is vital.
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