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Damian McBride: Repentant spinner
Damian McBride is a bastard. And, unusually for a memoirist, he’s very keen to let you know that from the…
ByHigh Minds by Simon Heffer: A thunderous new history of the Victorian era
This is an extended paean to an era whose ethos and moral purpose navigated the transition from the chaos of…
ByEmpress Dowager Cixi: The concubine who launched modern China
Much more than a Chinese Anne Boleyn, Cixi engineered a palace coup to place her young son on the throne…
ByThe Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri: A strangely passive experience
Stripping back an already pared-down style to the point of blandness.
ByWhat Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The age after innocence
Is feminism capable of addressing the differences between women, as well as those between women and men?
ByDemocracy Ltd by Bobby Friedman: Formula wrong
British elections used to be heroically corrupt.
ByThe barbarism of reason: John Gray on the Notebooks of Leopardi
The first full translation of a reclusive Italian poet’s philosophical “hotchpotch” is a major event in the history of ideas.
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