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The post-crash world: how the 2008 crisis led to our current age of extremes
Ten years on, the aftershocks of the crash threaten the very notion of the nation state.
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VS Naipaul 1932-2018: The king of literary rootlessness
Not since Conrad had a novelist so completely absorbed himself in the shifting complexities of his age, or written more sharply…
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Ticket to write: Derek Taylor’s front-line dispatches from Sixties counterculture
Diaries of the Beatles’ press agent illustrate his proximity to the cultural tremors of that extraordinary decade.
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Freedom, flight, oxygen, breath, space: these themes whistle through Anne Tyler’s Clock Dance
Her 22nd novel, Clock Dance is neither Tyler’s best work nor her worst.
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Christopher Andrew’s history of spying shows how undercover ops have changed history
Spying has been called the second-oldest profession – after prostitution.
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Chief charlatan: the greatest imposter of the jazz age
The 1920s was a decade of swindles – and one con artist out-tricked them all.
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Perfidious Albion is a spookily prescient take on Brexit Britain
This novel is set in the near future, in a Britain that has finally, absolutely broken free from the imagined…
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