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Confessions of a City trader

Gary Stevenson’s rags-to-riches memoir exposes a system where the rich can’t lose and the economy is choked by inequality.

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Also this week: Underdressed in snowy New York, the beauty of book covers, and delighting in London’s diversity.

By Elif Shafak

Also featuring a lost memoir by Harry Edward and The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes.

By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, Barney Horner, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Michael Prodger

Our simplistic attitude to Western civilisation overlooks the global trade and culture that created it.

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

As a former chair of the RSL, it is sad to see its mission being undermined by a new censoriousness.

By Lisa Appignanesi

An entertaining study of sacked musicians reveals the tensions that give pop its power.

By Peter Williams

Tanja Maljartschuk’s novel Forgottenness confronts Ukraine’s long struggle for nationhood in the face of Russia’s “imperial oblivion”.

By Linda Kinstler

Eric Klinenberg’s study of New York’s struggle with Covid in 2020 reveals a society riven by racism and discontent.

By Laura Spinney