What is the solution to gender inequality in the workplace?
Books by Iris Bohnet and Dawn Foster take divergent views on the problem of how women are valued at work.
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How our mobile phones and plastic toys help to prop up dictatorships
Leif Wenar’s Blood Oil skillfully reveals the link between the consumer goods we purchase and the violence with which their raw materials…
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Master of reality: on Henry James’ non-fiction
James elevated the novel to a higher plane – but 100 years after his death, it’s his surprising memoirs and…
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From a bullet to a drone, Anatomy of a Soldier tells the story of a wounded captain through the objects around him
I’d heard about what happened to Harry Parker in Afghanistan, and so at first I was a little nervous about…
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Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City changes how we view artistic sacrifice
Laing’s book uses her own loneliness to consider a group of 20th-century figures who expressed their alienation through art.
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Director Carol Morley’s debut novel joins a rich canon of writing by working-class women
Like her films, Morley’s 7 Miles Out is marked by the absence of men in a richly-realised northern culture.
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Our Kids reveals American class inequality – with has all-too-evident parallels here
Robert D Putnam has created an absorbing sketch of the US, drawn from hundreds of interviews with families.
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What the Green Man can teach us about our place in the world
Nina Lyon’s new book, Uprooted, uses the Green Man to excavate a bigger question: humankind’s relationship to nature.
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