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What it means to be German

Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.

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Psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s study of the motivations behind sex and desire is irredeemably bonkers.

By Sophie McBain

A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…

By Jeremy Cliffe

The tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.

By Quinn Slobodian

Kristi Coulter’s account of her 12-year career at the tech firm lays bare the toxic work culture of the 2010s.

By Alice Robb

The Booker Prize-winning author on political fiction, the refugee crisis and the “unmistakable” timeliness of his dystopian novel Prophet Song.

By Pippa Bailey

Tech visionaries may dream of a wordless future, but even Elon Musk cannot disrupt the communal power of speech.

By Peter Williams

Robert Skidelsky is right to warn about the delusions of our tech overlords – but his critique of Silicon Valley…

By Mark O’Connell