A reckoning for the Parisian elite
The French capital, once a seat of global power, has entered a new era of political and cultural upheaval.
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The politics of the prehistoric past
Our understanding of the earliest humans is shaped by contemporary beliefs about race, violence and sex.
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The Ozempic effect
Magic Pill, Johann Hari’s study of the rise of diet drugs, sheds light on our deeply dysfunctional food culture.
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Love, loathing and Lucian Freud
Rose Boyt’s memoir of her controlling father reveals a relationship defined by cruelty and shame.
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The lure of the English garden
Olivia Laing and Richard Mabey reveal the joys, crises and politics of making a garden of one’s own.
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Virginia Woolf’s politics of peace
Published between the wars, Woolf’s essay Three Guineas still has lessons for today’s conflict-ravaged world.
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How hormones rule our lives
From sex to eating, birth to body temperature, our physical selves do what our chemical masters tell us.
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How to fix English cricket
This year’s Wisden almanack describes a game in desperate pursuit of both profit and purpose.
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When women fight back
Three accounts of women who met male brutality on its own terms reveal the limits of justice – both within…
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Golf’s wealth wars
The influx of cash that came with the breakaway LIV series exposed the fault lines that run through all professional…
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The football club that data built
Brentford FC couldn’t outspend their Premier League rivals, so they decided to out-think them.
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The rise of the worried well
Caroline Crampton’s history of hypochondria shows how the internet has exacerbated health anxiety.
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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The fight to save the fractured Union
In an age of political alienation and resurgent nationalism, can the United Kingdom still hold?
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Shaking hands with Islamic State
When James Foley was murdered in Syria in 2014, his mother’s search for redemption began.
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Hitler, Putin and the information wars
Peter Pomerantsev’s new book shows how Second World War propaganda tactics are being used by the Kremlin today.
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The Nordic parenting myth
Scandinavians are not better parents – but their politicians, unlike Britain’s, understand that childcare is a social good.
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Escape from the oldest hatred
In Rachel Cockerell’s Melting Point, the forgotten story of America’s Jewish homeland sheds light on the tragedies of the present.
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Slave to the Bomb
We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.
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