In this week's magazine Red Reads

• Observations

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    The death of ideas

    We are at a political watershed, and are hungry for initiatives that will remake our world. But not

    By   Dominic Sandbrook

• Columns

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    A private affair

    . . . on a legal muddle, ranting historians and the wretched Rantzen

    By Peter Wilby

• Features

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    Red Reads: 31-40

    31-40 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Heller a

    By Staff blogger
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    Red Reads: 21-30

    21-30 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including William Morris, Naomi Klein

    By Staff blogger
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    Red Reads: 11-20

    11-20 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including E P Thompson, Émile Zola and

    By Staff blogger
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    Red Reads: 1-10

    50 books that will change your life with recommendations from Tony Benn, Susie Orbach, Christopher H

    By Staff blogger
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    Meet the ayatollahs

    As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in again as president amid further protests, Juan Cole, one of the

    By Juan Cole
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    Red Reads: 41-50

    41-50 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including William Blake, Albert Einste

    By Staff blogger

• Critics

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    Red Reads: 1-10

    50 books that will change your life with recommendations from Tony Benn, Susie Orbach, Christopher H

    By Staff blogger
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    Red Reads: 41-50

    41-50 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including William Blake, Albert Einste

    By Staff blogger
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    Red Reads: 31-40

    31-40 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Heller a

    By Staff blogger
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    Single-Handed

    Tourist-board myths about rural Ireland are exploded by this murky crime drama

    By Rachel Cooke
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    Red Reads: 21-30

    21-30 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including William Morris, Naomi Klein

    By Staff blogger
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    Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15)

    There’s life yet in the French gangster movie genre

    By Ryan Gilbey
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    Red Reads: 11-20

    11-20 in our countdown of 50 books that will change your life including E P Thompson, Émile Zola and

    By Staff blogger