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Elizabeth Gilbert doesn’t deserve the hate

All the Way to the River is self-indulgent and shameless – like all good memoirs

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A new non-fiction book reveals the fascinating forays into how pets shape politics

By Rachel Cunliffe

Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to reconstruct the playwright’s story is brilliant – but Marlowe the man remains a mystery

By John Mullan

The novelist and activist details how she fashioned herself out of collisions with her mother

By Anjum Hasan

In his new memoir, the former taoiseach defends his polarising legacy

By Finn McRedmond

George Owers’s new book about the two-party political system is rich in history – but it misses one vital detail.

By Ronald Hutton

Andrew Hussey’s book on a “divided nation” veers too close to the personal over the political when diagnosing the Fifth…

By Robert Zaretsky

Human doctors may be fallible, but they have a tool that AI medicine will never have: judgement.

By Ronald W Dworkin