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John Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
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John Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
ByBuilt on imperial amnesia and competing nationalisms, the EU has never been the beacon of inclusion it claims to be.
ByAlso featuring National Dish by Anya von Bremzen and Metropolitan by Andrew Martin.
BySixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
ByChristopher Neve’s study of great painters reveals the risks and rewards of creating art at the end of life.
ByIn renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
ByEveryone can, and should, be a critic. But the reviews website is having a sinister effect on books.
ByEd Conway’s Material World shows that despite our digital lives it is rocks and minerals that power the global economy.
ByIn the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
ByEngineered to trick our taste buds and appetites, artificially produced food is ruining our health and damaging our children. But…
BySimon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how prejudice…
ByAlso this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.
ByJonathan Kennedy’s Pathogenesis reveals how diseases have built and broken empires and economies.
ByAlso featuring Anna Metcalfe’s Chrysalis and Octavia Bright’s This Ragged Grace.
ByWe admire trees for their solitary strength, but it is their remarkable facility for collaboration and sharing that provides lessons…
ByMen at War, Luke Turner’s tender account of servicemen’s transgressive private lives, transforms our understanding of the Second World War.
ByAlice Robb’s Don’t Think Dear reveals how the elite world of dance exerts a terrible physical and mental toll.
ByA new history takes in everything from ancient Roman weddings to Don’t Tell the Bride to ask: can we redefine…
ByAlso featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
ByIn her work, the novelist developed a radical philosophy of relationships. In her life, she put it into practice.
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