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The interwar years were as bewildering as the present

Alwyn Turner’s new history reassures us that the past is not, as many imagine, any cosier or more patriotic than…

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For two pairs of sisters in her new novel Glyph, storytelling is a way of dealing with troubles past and…

By Lara Feigel

His successors proclaimed a more liberal socialism. But was it ever real?

By Owen Hatherley

Washington’s best journalist exposed the Maga elite. Now she has exposed herself

By Faye Curran

Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene thought it was the “real” faith even when they disliked it

By Dan Hitchens

A biography of the man on trial for anti-corporate murder seeks to disrupt the hero narrative that has grown around…

By Grace Byron

The author’s late style in The Eleventh Hour, his new collection of fiction, reveals a venerable writer displaced by time

By Tanjil Rashid

The author’s latest novel blandly reimagines the Arabian Nights tales

By Emily Lawford