Lena Dunham and the art monster
Her memoir Famesick shows the corrosive effect of living through one’s work
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An English life in Vladimir Putin’s twilight zone
Foreign correspondent Marc Bennetts spent 25 years living in Russia. What did he witness during its descent into authoritarianism?
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Patrick Radden Keefe’s obituary for Britain
In London Falling, the American journalist presents the capital as a dying, amoral city
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John Lanchester’s personal venom
John Lanchester’s new novel offers a darkly funny vision of bitter London professionals
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The Apple half-century
How the electronics company went from near bankruptcy to global dominance – and changed our lives along the way
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The Whig interpretation of Europe
Roderick Beaton’s spirited history of the Continent cannot square its idealism with the bloody story that it tells
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Surviving forced labour in wartime Berlin
Ian Buruma’s account of his father’s years in a German factory accounts department is moving but limited in scope
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The Rasputin legend
He dazzled the tsar and tsarina with his virile charisma. But, as Antony Beevor shows, he also inspired their demise
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