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This new history of America, told through political speeches, can’t see that progress truly comes through division

By David Bromwich

Is the cancellation of an artist ever justified?

By Daniel Callcut

The poet’s new collection, Yiewsley, is a beautiful examination of his own childhood

By Noreen Masud

Simon Paré-Poupart’s memoir-cum-manifesto lifts the lid on rubbish

By Jon Day

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At Moth Club in Hackney, a horde of bookish Babitz fans try to recreate a lost world

By Phoebe Pascoe

The brutal theocracy maintained from Tehran came to power on the back of decades of misrule

By Simon Sebag Montefiore