Ben Rhodes’ empty words
This new history of America, told through political speeches, can’t see that progress truly comes through division
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From the Marquis de Sade to Cardi B: the history of dangerous art
Is the cancellation of an artist ever justified?
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Daljit Nagra talks to himself
The poet’s new collection, Yiewsley, is a beautiful examination of his own childhood
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One man’s trash is another man’s Trash!
Simon Paré-Poupart’s memoir-cum-manifesto lifts the lid on rubbish
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Around the world in 18 summer reads
The New Statesman recommends our favourite beach reads
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Everyone wants to be Eve Babitz
At Moth Club in Hackney, a horde of bookish Babitz fans try to recreate a lost world
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Why the Islamic Republic of Iran endures
The brutal theocracy maintained from Tehran came to power on the back of decades of misrule
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George Forster: Enlightenment iconoclast
Andrea Wulf returns to the world of 18th-century intellectual adventurers, with a life of the naturalist George Forster
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