How Joseph Roth saw Europe’s future
The Austrian novelist had a feel for the mood of the streets – and spotted the warning signs of the…
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How to survive in a world run by machines
Artificial intelligence may represent a threat to our humanity – but it might also offer opportunities to enhance it.
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Johny Pitts’s Afropean is a radical and wide-ranging tour of Europe’s black communities
Pitts searches for a common identity among black people of African descent in Europe, visiting as many of their most…
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How the Bauhaus built the future
In 1919, Walter Gropius established an art school in sleepy Weimar. Before long it had invented a new way of…
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The big reach of the Little Red Book
The global influence of Maoism, from 1970s Zimbabwe to 1990s Peru.
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Iris the insoluble
Parodied or neglected by critics, Iris Murdoch’s work has fallen out of fashion. But, 100 years after her birth, her…
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The people fighting to save our wildernesses from climate change
This year Guardian contributors such as myself were advised to alter the language we use to write about long-standing environmental…
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“Schizophrenia terrifies”: how Esmé Weijun Wang broke the last taboo of mental illness
The Whiting Award-winning author discusses illness, social media and her new memoir The Collected Schizophrenias.
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