From the archive: Trotsky in Mexico; Angela Carter on the maternity ward – Audio Long Reads
Revisiting two seminal articles from 1937 and 1983.
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From the archive: when HG Wells met Josef Stalin – Audio Long Reads
In 1934, Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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Then Later, His Ghost: a Christmas story by Sarah Hall – Audio Long Reads
Christmas coming, a man and a woman in a lonely long barn expecting a child, a post-apocalyptic landscape, a journey…
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: a personal manifesto on the art of fiction
Why the novel still matters
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A brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars – Audio Long Reads
From Suella Braverman to Elon Musk, war has been declared on liberalism. How did one word come to mean so…
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World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions? – Audio Long Reads
How the French president became the most powerful leader in Europe.
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Are ‘Substackademics’ the new public intellectuals? – Audio Long Reads
Roy Jenkins, while serving as president of the European Commission, used to spend his mornings writing. The heads of state…
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Era of the rogue superpower: what Trump’s bid means for the US, Russia and China – Audio Long Reads
Will Trumpism survive a changing world order?
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