Faith is a half-formed thing
A new generation is turning away from established churches in search of a different way to believe.
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Britain’s small boats obsession
Overcrowded dinghies used for desperate, dangerous crossings have become totemic in our toxic immigration conversation.
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Solvej Balle’s day without end
In this Danish novel, a woman stuck in a repeating time loop is forced to consider the very fundamentals of…
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How the world stopped Hitler
The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.
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The sounds that shape us
Alice Vincent’s Hark asks why gender, age and parenthood change the way we listen.
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The road that built England
The country’s elusive identity resides not in a National Trust garden, but on the thundering dual carriageway of the A1.
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Who are the white working class?
A deeply reported survey of a much-mythologised slice of Britain reveals a heterogeneous, complex demographic.
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Joan Didion without her style
The writer’s posthumous therapy journal is raw and unvarnished – the most direct book she never wrote.
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