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Trapped in the generation gap

Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.

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Also featuring Cinderella Boys by Leo McKinstry and In Light-Years There’s No Hurry by Marjolijn van Heemstra.

By Michael Prodger, Rachel Cunliffe and Christiana Bishop

In her self-published memoir, the influencer veers between sharp wit and trite aphorisms, perceptive candour and petty insults.

By Amelia Tait

Tomiwa Owolade argues that American culture wars obscure black British identity – but are racial borders less fixed than he…

By Tanjil Rashid

In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…

By Anna Leszkiewicz

The American novelist understood the bleak truth that the world defies human understanding or control.

By John Gray

How Elizabeth Gilbert gave up on literature.

By Charlotte Stroud

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

By Adam Hochschild