How Donald Trump rose to power
Maggie Haberman’s Confidence Man is the best account yet of Trump’s path to the presidency – and a crucial guide…
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Maggie Haberman’s Confidence Man is the best account yet of Trump’s path to the presidency – and a crucial guide…
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In The Passenger, his first novel for 16 years, the great American writer offers a study of living without answers.
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Keith Fisher’s A Pipeline Runs Through It charts how oil revolutionised transport and war, and continues to shape today’s geopolitics.
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The Sri Lankan novelist on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning the 2022 prize.
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In 1790s Jena a group of thinkers including Friedrich Schiller and Goethe built the intellectual foundations of today’s world.
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Even in his love affairs, the spy novelist used tradecraft. Has his double life come to overshadow his work?
By20 May 1977: Almost anybody afloat in a poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s complete works has reason to regret the…
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Also featuring essays by Mia Mercado and After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport.
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The country is blighted by landlordism, homelessness and Thatcher’s legacy.
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His vexatious, evolving style demonstrates a capacity to face the world as sensitively and honestly as possible.
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3 November 1923: A first review from the archives of Eliot’s great poem.
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With clinical precision and revelatory intimacy, the French memoirist reinvigorated the art of life-writing.
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Ernaux understands that writing honestly about her parents is a form of betrayal – but she does it anyway.
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In its tenth year, the award for “fiction at its most novel” presents a politically charged shortlist dominated by female…
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Jeremy Bowen’s personal history shows how hopes of peace failed and the region entered a new era of instability.
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In the late actor’s diaries, his merciless verdicts on showbiz idiocy are tempered by a deep loyalty and humanity.
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Andrew Gimson’s biography of the former prime minister describes a man who can pull off a miracle. With the Tories…
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William Blake’s poem, set to music by Hubert Parry, is viewed by some as patriotic, and others as a progressive…
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Richard Rorty, the philosopher who predicted Trump, was scathing about the US’s failings but believed in the country’s capacity to…
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In the novelist’s final published work, she considered the “creative friction” behind her Wolf Hall trilogy.
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