Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel – Audio Long Reads
What the 20th-century author teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.
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When hundreds of people claim to remember seeing a movie called Shazaam – but no such film was ever made…
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Staffers past and present share the story of a tumultuous 12 months.
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What does Vladimir Putin owe his Soviet predecessor?
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Continuity of care has been eroded in favour of “taxi-rank” medicine, where few people know their GP. Can that connection…
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The human drama of a landmark trial that gripped the world.
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Europe faces a new influx of refugees from Ukraine, but many Afghans who fled the Taliban last year have yet…
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