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The Italian psychiatrist who ended the age of the mental asylum

As John Foot makes clear in his fascinating account of the life and times of Franco Basaglia, Italy’s “anti-institutional” movement…

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Stephen Spender’s is a life well documented. Now his son has written about him.

By Marina Benjamin

A debut novel invoking Ted Hughes’s Crow joins an all-male shortlist for the influential award for innovative fiction.

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The more interconnected we become, the more detached we are from the soil that spawned us – and the more…

By Benjamin Myers

As Britain’s imperial elite dissolved, the charming double agent clung to his precious badge of identity: an Old Etonian tie.

By John Gray

The Prank: the Best of Young Chekhov reveals how Anton Chekhov developed from jobbing hack to master of the short story.

By Chris Power

It is hardly possible to exaggerate the guilt of the Nazi regime, but not all of the atrocities committed in…

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Two histories of the Holocaust reveal the what we didn’t know about the concentration camps.

By Joanna Bourke