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We 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.
ByPolly Barton’s “oral history” of porn shows the myopia of cultural criticism drawn from personal experience. We desperately need a…
ByOnce a death sentence, my diagnosis has proved a weird limbo of scattered treatment and blurred identities.
ByHow should we spend our hours in the age of burnout? Arguably not by reading Jenny Odell’s frustrating new book,…
ByThe New Yorker journalist’s latest book, The Real Work, sheds light on a career spent obsessively attempting to master the…
ByThe historian is right that Britain’s colonial legacy is morally complex. So why is his defence of it so simplistic?
ByFrom politics and Big Tech to history and identity, the essential books for the year ahead.
ByWe might be tempted to see prizes for women as less necessary with each passing year – but non-fiction is…
ByBlake Morrison’s account of sibling tragedy passes its moral questions on to the reader.
ByAlso featuring Tomorrow Perhaps the Future by Sarah Watling and Away From Beloved Lover by Dee Peyok.
ByIn sport and politics, the English boast that they always play by the rules – but history tells a different…
ByTania Branigan’s Red Memory shows how Xi Jinping’s China is erasing the violence and tyranny of Mao’s purges from history.
ByThe star producer’s supremely vague manual on creativity does nothing to explain his craft.
ByHaunted by his misguided support for the Iraq War, the American writer turned to tragedy to understand the delusions of…
ByAlso featuring Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud and Sensational by Ashley Ward.
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