The subtle art of soft power
How nations use culture to engage in a “storytelling competition”.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Mary Ann Sieghart, Terje Tvedt, Jarred McGinnis and Brad Stone
The Authority Gap by Sieghart, The Nile by Tvedt, The Coward by McGinnis and Amazon Unbound by Stone.
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Can bookshops survive in the era of Amazon?
James Daunt, the managing director of Waterstones, discusses Covid-19 closures, paying staff the living wage and saving Europe’s largest bookstore.
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Marina Warner: “I’ve always found it very hard to know what I’m like”
One of Britain’s most lauded public intellectuals, Marina Warner made a career out of analysing legends. But she is less…
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Why assassination doesn’t work
“Targeted killing” is as old as mankind, but such murders rarely achieve their ends or change the course of history.
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The darker side of Bob Dylan
How the songwriter’s duplicitous behaviour and his visionary music were bound together
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Reviewed in short: New books by Jordan Ellenberg, Karen Tumulty, Mieko Kawakami and Egill Bjarnason
Shape by Jordan Ellenberg, The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty, Heaven by Mieko Kawakami and How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason
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Bernardine Evaristo: British schools sideline writers of colour
How terribly sad that children of colour are unlikely to see people who look like them in the books they read…
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