Books (Featured)
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The big idea: could you have made different choices in life?
Now is the time when we look back over the past year and wonder: how did I do? Philip Ball…
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The Ghosts of Kennan
We all read him, those of us who did graduate work in U.S. diplomatic history in the late 1980s and…
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Time is arrested in Gail Jones’ beautiful new novel of war and art, Salonika Burning
The image is of a city on fire, watched by soldiers at a distance who despite, or perhaps because of,…
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Margo Jefferson and the Art of Life
In her work, especially her new book Constructing a Nervous System, she transforms criticism into an experience one feels in…
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‘How are they losing their children like this?’
“How are they losing their children like this, all over the country? Lucy Christopher The Conversation They aren’t used to…
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Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic
The voices in her head told Hilma af Klint she would be a great artist. Madoc Cairns The Guardian They…
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How Saidiya Hartman Changed the Study of Black Life
Saidiya Hartman has shaped studies of Black life for over two decades. Elias Rodriques The Nation Her first book, 1997’s Scenes…
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Τreason
Τreason is a page-turning story of human drama, heroism and sacrifice. PREVIEW It is an intimate and compelling account of…
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The Left Needs to Take Back the Constitution
With the catastrophic recent term of the Supreme Court finally concluded, it can no longer be denied that the judiciary…
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Command by Lawrence Freedman review – inside the war room
From Korea to Ukraine, a brilliant study of the politics and personalities that drive modern conflicts John Simpson The Guardian…
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“Land of Aeolia”
Land of Aeolia by Ilias Venezis is inspired by the author’s happy childhood memories from his summers spent at his grandparents’…
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Five Hong Kong speech therapists jailed for conspiracy to ‘brainwash’ children with cartoons
Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, featuring…
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Five books you’ll like if you love The Odyssey
The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia…
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The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman review – Soviet wartime propaganda with a human face
Some authors have a very active afterlife, though the results when the writer’s literary estate dips its hand in the…
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The Reclusive Giant of Australian Letters
Gerald Murnane’s new book, billed as his last, surveys the rest of his output. Merve Emre The NewYorker 0n most…
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NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic
Through this she explores what happens when an authoritarian regime implodes, using characters who are horses, pigs, dogs, cows, cats,…
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