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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

Apocalyptic theories about the massacres of the past century obscure the root causes of conflict.

By John Gray

One-Dimensional Woman/Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism

One-Dimensional Woman/Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism

Nina Power/Natasha Walter
The Books Interview: Frank Kermode

The Books Interview: Frank Kermode

The Rule of Law

Tom Bingham
The real reason Salinger sought  escape

The real reason Salinger sought escape

The seclusion of J D Salinger and Glenn Gould was a result of psychological damage.

The NS interview: Clive James

The NS interview: Clive James

“We wore little forage caps and looked like the Hitler Youth”

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Asylum: Inside the Closed World  of State Mental Hospitals

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

Christopher Payne

The Tin Drum

Günter Grass, translated by Breon Mitchell

To have and to Holden

Leo Robson explains how fans’ devotion to Salinger’s cult anti-hero is misplaced.

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Culture Vulture: reviews round-up

The critics' verdicts on Martin Amis, Natasha Walter and Andrea Levy.

The Books Interview: Hisham Matar

The Books Interview: John Berger

The Books Interview: Tzvetan Todorov

The Books Interview: Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

The philosopher discusses his new book A Week At the Airport

The Books Interview: John Irving

The Books Interview: Peter Clarke

The NS Interview: Robert Harris

“Like Rome, governments need that five-year sacrifice and sweeping away”

Andrew Stephen

The real Salinger

The real reason Salinger sought  escape

Interview

Clive James

The NS interview: Clive James

Book review

Collective madness

Asylum: Inside the Closed World  of State Mental Hospitals

Simon says relax

Charity singles

Simon says relax

John Gray

A cure for genocide?

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

Film review

Invictus

Invictus (12A)

Music

Lady Gaga

Miss Motivator

Richard Dawkins

On evolution

Accidents of life

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