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The new age of perfectionism

Is capitalism itself causing millennial burnout?

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Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.

By Gavin Jacobson, Christiana Bishop, Rachel Cunliffe and Michael Prodger

Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how prejudice…

By Stephen Buranyi

A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…

By John Gray

At the heart of her new novel August Blue is the question: where does one self begin and another end?

By Alex Clark

Jonathan Kennedy’s Pathogenesis reveals how diseases have built and broken empires and economies.

By Kathleen Jamie

What communities devoted to hero-worship tell us about the psychology of belonging.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Whips, a parliamentary romp by the former No 10 adviser Cleo Watson, is fact barely disguised as fiction.

By Sasha Swire