How the system failed both Anthony Broadwater and Alice Sebold
The writer of The Lovely Bones has apologised to the man wrongly convicted of her rape. She is not the first survivor to have blamed an…
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Sophie McBain is a special correspondent at the New Statesman.
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Two new books reveal the fault line running through the gender identity debate.
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The songwriter discusses bipolar disorder and his legacy.
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Sarah Ferguson’s new Mills & Boon novel is strangely unsexy
This long-winded, 560-page “romance” is full of plot twists and turns, punctuated by only the occasional kiss.
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The pain and shame of girlhood
In a collection of eight essays, the writer Melissa Febos uses her own adolescence as a departure point for…
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The baby bust: How a declining birth rate will reshape the world
We are now facing a demographic winter that will transform the way we live.
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The plants that change our consciousness
How three plant-derived drugs – caffeine, opium and mescaline – shape society
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The Bench by Meghan Markle: It is mind-boggling how bad this book is
Many parents wonder how hard it is to write a children's book. But this collection of platitudes about paternal…
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