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Reviewed in short: New books from Brian Brivati, Anne Tyler, Helen Mort and Michelle Drouin
Losing Afghanistan by Brivati, French Braid by Tyler, A Line Above the Sky by Mort and Out of Touch by…
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Losing Afghanistan by Brivati, French Braid by Tyler, A Line Above the Sky by Mort and Out of Touch by…
ByChinese fiction is booming, but authors cannot escape the regime’s tightening grip.
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ByOliver Bullough’s Butler to the World shows how the UK’s enthusiasm for deregulation has made it a global haven for…
ByCLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by Williams, Recitatif by Morrison, Moon Witch, Spider King by James and Wivenhoe…
ByThis broad, ambitious book skilfully skewers everyday sexism, but Penny's feminist uprising underestimates those they wish to save.
ByHow Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch transformed philosophy for a postwar world.
ByInvisible Child follows Dasani Coates and her family in New York as they battle a racist system that is rigged…
ByTwo books explore how exercise has been shaped by science, culture and the quest for autonomy. But does keeping fit…
ByThe Right to Repair by Perzanowski, The Instant by Liptrot, Distant Fathers by Jarre, and Wreck by De Freston.
ByWorn by Thanhauser, Cold Enough for Snow by Au, A Terrible Kindness by Wroe and The Global Merchants by Sassoon.
ByThe metaverse promises infinite new realms just as tangible as the one we will leave behind.
ByVegans makes meat-eaters aware of their hypocrisy, argues Ed Winters in This is Vegan Propaganda – and people hate them for…
ByPlaying with Fire by Wilson, Trust No One by Grothaus, Gangsters of Capitalism by Katz and Toxic Positivity by Goodman.
ByConstable: A Portrait by Hamilton, Olga Dies Dreaming by Gonzalez, The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life…
ByFrom his Dulwich days to the EU referendum, the man who made Brexit has always been a lone provocateur.
ByFree Love by Hadley, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Wassef, Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without…
ByThe Glory and the Sorrow by Tackett, It’s the Leader, Stupid, by Adonis, East Side Voices edited by Lee, and…
ByFreedom by Law, Stolen Focus by Hari, The Burgundians by Van Loo and Where You Come From by Stanišic.
ByNotes From Deep Time by Gordon, Solid Ivory by Ivory, We Don't Know Ourselves by O’Toole and Sour Grapes by…
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