The banality of Vladimir Putin
A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…
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Margo Jefferson: “We were always performing desirable blackness”
The critic and memoirist on growing up in 1960s Chicago, Donald Trump’s “constant oversight”, and her fascination with minstrel shows.
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How I learned to ditch Amazon and fall in love with books again
After years of mindlessly buying the books I thought I should read, my local bookshop helped me to discover my…
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How TS Eliot found happiness
Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Sophie Pavelle, Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor, Ana Kinsella and Gerald Murnane
Forget Me Not by Pavelle, The Silver Waterfall by Simms and McGregor, Look Here by Kinsella and Last Letter to…
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Karl Ove Knausgård to launch tenth anniversary celebration of Goldsmiths Prize
The Norwegian author’s lecture on “why the novel matters” will mark a decade of the groundbreaking fiction prize.
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Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask
Serhii Rudenko’s biography is a portrait of a wartime hero whose troubled past may return to haunt him.
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No, Philip Larkin is not being “cancelled” by schools
The culture war against teachers and academics is manufactured by right-wing newspapers and rent-a-quote reactionaries.
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