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The ultra-processed food swindle

Engineered to trick our taste buds and appetites, artificially produced food is ruining our health and damaging our children. But…

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A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…

By John Gray

How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde

By Francisco Garcia

Full of explicit depictions of bizarre, humiliating events, the French novelist’s new memoir reads like the ramblings of a buffoon.

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