Inside the mind of Luigi Mangione
A biography of the man on trial for anti-corporate murder seeks to disrupt the hero narrative that has grown around…
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Life lessons from Beijing’s courier grind
In I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan reflects on the ways work divides and controls both our lives and…
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Margaret Atwood is nobody’s handmaid
The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts reveals a writer who, despite her success, can’t let go of criticism…
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How to fix the internet: break the oligarchy
Two new books trace the decline of the global online public square – and its replacement by a machine for…
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Cameron Crowe’s endless adolescence
In his memoir The Uncool, the rock-critic-turned-filmmaker explores his lifelong fascination with the American teen experience
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Who killed the social housing dream?
A new history of Britain’s tower blocks reveals the ways architecture and ideology have combined to ensure residents are always…
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Martin Scorsese, priest of the silver screen
In his youth, the great auteur wanted to join the Church – but he practised his faith better from the…
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All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir
A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world
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Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death
Silicon Valley is pursuing immortality with religious zeal – but what’s the point?
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Rewilding Rory Stewart
Deeply rooted in the landscape of the Borders, The Rest Is Politics co-host is a rural romantic at heart
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The guru of the AI apocalypse
Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity
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Britain’s Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
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Surviving 491 days in Hamas captivity
Eli Sharabi’s agonising memoir explores how the world nearly forgot the Gaza hostages
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Andrew O’Hagan’s ode to friendship
In his memoir/manifesto, the author suggests the close relationships we make with peers shape our lives
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The World Cup in the age of extremes
Next year’s edition, to be held in Donald Trump’s America, will only be the latest in a long history of…
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When did opera become elitist?
Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to…
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The price of revolution
Jason Burke chronicles how radical activists in the 1970s found violent new ways to pursue their causes
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An Afghan hotel that has seen it all
Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a vivid and personal display of Afghanistan’s turbulent political history
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The liberating power of vodou
Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore
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Annie Ernaux’s clinical self-examination
In The Other Girl, the writer is as objective about her life as she is the act of writing
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