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Bringing the dead back to life

The world of South Africa’s /Xam Bushmen blended vision and reality, human and animal – until it was brutally destroyed.

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The philosopher’s First World War notebooks reveal a soul in torment, but was fighting on the front line really the…

By Thomas Nagel

Dan McCrum’s Money Men tells the story of audacious financial fraud hiding in plain sight.

By Emma Haslett

Two hundred years after he drowned, Shelley’s poems of tyranny and freedom speak to our own darkening age.

By Frances Wilson

The Children of the Anthropocene by Lack, Map of Hope and Sorrow by Benedict and Awwadawnan, The Inseparables by de…

By Philippa Nuttall, Zoë Grünewald, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Michael Prodger

Ed Yong’s fascinating new book on the complex behaviours of creatures uncovers a universe of unfathomable beauty.

By Mark Cocker

Lillian Fishman’s bold and searching debut novel, Acts of Service, questions the meaning of desire and introduces a major new…

By Johanna Thomas-Corr

A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…

By Katie Stallard