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How we became obsessed with the human face

Fay Bound-Alberti’s book argues faces have come to matter too much

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The gaming corporation succeeded by shunning the slaughter and darkness that drives so many franchises

By Will Dunn

The market for erotic lactation, IVF and surrogacy is a morally complex world of desperation and exploitation

By Hannah Barnes

The LRB essayist’s new novel draws from his reporting on a dysfunctional nation

By George Monaghan

Frank Dikötter charts the rise of Chinese communism through its brutality. But does he undervalue the role of ideas?

By Rana Mitter

The country’s vast woods have been overlooked in our understanding of its violent history

By Robert Service

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By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Britain’s best-known historian found new audiences for the stories of the past. Can he now get them to read novels?

By Tanjil Rashid