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How the Treasury quietly runs Britain

A new history of the department shows that, as Liz Truss discovered to her cost, its “abacus economics” has never…

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Accounts of the poet’s brutal rejections of Mary Trevelyan and Emily Hale shed light on a man obsessed by posterity…

By Margaret Drabble

Also featuring Susan L Shirk on China under Xi Jinping and Ryan Gingeras on the Ottoman Empire.

By Katie Stallard, Michael Prodger, Christiana Bishop and Matthew Gilley

The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Somebody Loves You discusses Antigone, Michaela Coel and putting language over a Bunsen…

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Maggie Haberman’s Confidence Man is the best account yet of Trump’s path to the presidency – and a crucial guide…

By Jonathan Powell

The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Peaces on mongooses, Korean drama and “discipline in the pursuit of chaos”.

By Tom Gatti

In The Passenger, his first novel for 16 years, the great American writer offers a study of living without answers.

By John Gray

Keith Fisher’s A Pipeline Runs Through It charts how oil revolutionised transport and war, and continues to shape today’s geopolitics.

By Brendan Simms