Chris Power’s collection of short stories explores suppressed and imagined trauma
Mothers contains ten sensitively executed stories that reveal Power’s studied knowledge of the history of short fiction.
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The long spring: following the two billion birds that migrate to Europe each year
Science is only now revealing some of the last mysteries of migration.
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The treacherous relationship between Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the CIA
How Pakistan has played a deadly game with the US.
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Ben Okri’s The Magic Lamp is a collection of morally ambiguous tales for our trying times
Pairing 25 original paintings with 25 original stories, the collaboration with his partner, the painter Rosemary Clunie, took five years…
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Empty promises: how 600 million young people in India have been missold the future
Mumbai’s young Indians occupy a world of loans and get-rich-quick schemes. Are these the losers of globalisation?
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Why author Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the ideal public thinker for the age of Trump
The idea of Skin in the Game is straightforward. People who make decisions ought to be exposed to the consequences if they…
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The jokey nature The Growth Delusion is at odds with its serious economic arguments
Each chapter of David Pilling’s book begins with a wearily cheery anecdote.
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Jim Crace’s The Melody is a haunting novel set outside the boundaries of traditional realism
On the surface Crace’s language seems for the most part unadorned, but the adornment here is in the melody of…
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