The good fortune of growing older
Also this week: City kids on country farms, and keeping on lurruping
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Does Keir Starmer understand George Orwell?
Our political class is addicted to a study of patriotism they have misread
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Kamala Harris cares too much about being nice
The presidential candidate’s new book, 107 Days, shows a lack of curiosity about what voters want
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The manosphere’s literary muscle men
Two novels explore the crippling solitude of a pair of ripped English professors
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How Richard Holmes humanised Tennyson
The biographer of England’s great poets reveals the secrets of inhabiting his subjects’ lives
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Patricia Lockwood’s dispatches from the brain fog
The author’s autofictional account of Covid and its after-effects, Will There Ever Be Another You, confirms her place as a…
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Ian McEwan and fiction’s problem with climate change
In What We Can Know, Britain has sunk beneath the waves – but literature remains buoyant
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The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
Six international authors compete for the high prize of English-language novels
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