How not to be a racist
As white identity is under threat, racial prejudice is finding new and disturbing outlets.
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Kierkegaard’s ways to be human
Søren Kierkegaard believed “there is a freedom in letting go of familiar, worldly ways of measuring a human life”. But his…
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The return of dystopian fiction
From Dave Eggers to John Lanchester and Ben Okri to Margaret Atwood, writers are crafting horror stories that reflect our…
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Why Hannah Arendt is the philosopher for now
Arendt’s political philosophy, formed under Nazi persecution, is having a resurgence in our troubled age.
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For the love of god, JK Rowling, write that Dumbledore/Grindelwald slash fic you keep teasing
When JK Rowling revealed recently that – beyond the pages of anything she’s ever actually written – her characters Dumbledore…
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“Scottish writers are superior by far”: James Kelman on the Booker, class and literary elitism
In 1994, working-class Scottish novelist James Kelman won the Booker Prize, scandalising the establishment. Twenty-five years later, the outrage still reverberates…
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The Reich without end
How Hitler’s diehard adherents recast both Nazism and themselves at the end of the Second World War.
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Let Me Not Be Mad: powerful case histories of unravelling minds
Neuropsychologist AK Benjamin conjures strange and powerful stories in a book poised between fiction and memoir.
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