How to lead Leeds United
The club had one triumphant streak under the ruthless Don Revie. Can the purist Marcelo Bielsa sustain another?
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The liberal platitudes of Michael Ignatieff
On Consolation promises to show how writers and artists found solace in suffering – but delivers only bland pieties.
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The brain delusion: Why order does not lead to excellence
Ian McGilchrist‘s The Matter With Things shows that success is the result of creative thinking and intuition, not scientific systems.
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Michel Houellebecq and the soul of France
Sex, death, politics and terrorism – and the return of the great writer.
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Ben Okri: climate change and oppression are born of the same “devouring instincts”
The award-winning writer on philosophy, mythology and the connections between racial injustice and ecological crisis.
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Reviewed in short: New titles from Nathan Law, Johann Hari, Bart Van Loo and Saša Stanišic
Freedom by Law, Stolen Focus by Hari, The Burgundians by Van Loo and Where You Come From by Stanišic.
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Why Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise is an unconvincing redesigning of America
The new novel from the bestselling author of A Little Life is less than the sum of its parts.
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