Processing Wirecard’s €2bn scandal
Dan McCrum’s Money Men tells the story of audacious financial fraud hiding in plain sight.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Sophie Pavelle, Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor, Ana Kinsella and Gerald Murnane
Forget Me Not by Pavelle, The Silver Waterfall by Simms and McGregor, Look Here by Kinsella and Last Letter to…
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Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask
Serhii Rudenko’s biography is a portrait of a wartime hero whose troubled past may return to haunt him.
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How the empire degraded Britain
Three new histories reveal the corrosive effects of colonialism and slavery on today’s British politics.
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From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary
The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.
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The Death of Consensus: the recurring nightmares of British politics
From strikes to Brexit, a new book by the BBC producer Phil Tinline explores how the UK has been shaped…
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Geoff Dyer and the art of slacking off
The author’s workshy alter-egos made his books a delight. Now in sober late middle age, has the ultimate skiver lost…
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Henry Kissinger’s whitewashing of Richard Nixon
The American diplomat’s new book, Leadership, is undermined by his self-serving portrait of his thuggish former boss.
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: liberal feminism under attack
Louise Perry’s new book is a provocative denunciation of pornified culture and sex positivity.
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What Antony Beevor gets wrong about Russia
The historian’s new book Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 fails to understand that brutality is powered by ideas.
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The myth of England’s rural idyll
The countryside is not a peaceful refuge from urban life, writes Vron Ware in Return of a Native, but a…
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From bullied to billionaire – the inevitable triumph of Elon Musk
In a new biography, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is portrayed as a troubled visionary who views success as a…
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Zero: Jeremy Hunt’s book on the NHS is well intentioned – but misses 90 per cent of the story
Candid on short-staffing and underfunding, ministerial memoir Zero omits the healthcare that happens in the community.
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Jarvis Cocker’s book Good Pop, Bad Pop reveals the sentimental side he hid in the Nineties
Taking us through the contents of his attic, the Pulp frontman shows there was always more to him than ironic…
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The myth of the white male scientific genius – and why its time is up
Darwin and Newton acknowledged their debt to other cultures. Why don’t we?
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Who is to blame for 30 years of climate change inertia?
Two new books trace the history of global inaction over the climate emergency, and seek to identify the culprits.
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The joyless rise of Anna Wintour
Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades.
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Where the internet went wrong – and how we can reboot it
The online world is run by tech companies that we depend on but deeply distrust. New books by Justin EH…
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Rebels Against the Raj: A morality tale for Modi’s nationalist India
A new history of the Westerners who fought with Gandhi to free India from British rule has lessons for the…
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What rocks teach us about the human condition
In Hugh Raffles' profound, genre-straddling new book, stones and minerals reveal the pain of loss and the secrets of time.
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