Fear and loathing in Liverpool
Why a “left-wing city” can still host a race riot.
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Jensen Huang: the man who powers AI
The entrepreneur’s microchip company Nvidia has fuelled a tech revolution, but his success is built on failure and suffering.
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Inside the ugly world of Facebook
In Careless People, former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals the callousness at the heart of the company.
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Capitalism (Taylor’s Version)
Swift is a self-made billionaire and the most profitable live musician in history. What can her ascendance teach us?
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A Northumbrian pilgrimage
A poet’s journey through the north-east reveals our universal desire to belong to a place we call home.
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The murder that shocked the Edwardians
The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
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The Yoko Ono problem
As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have obscured her…
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The cyclical history of abortion rights
The past has been marked by periods of acceptance and intolerance of women’s bodily autonomy. Can it offer lessons for…
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Why you can’t trust economists
Dispassionate discussions of financial markets are often political statements in disguise.
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The Beatles’ brilliant friendship
The Paul McCartney-John Lennon bond is a great story of boys and men, class and fame, love and jealousy
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How not to build a nation
Britain and the US lack the political will and legal means to innovate.
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Our overdiagnosis epidemic
How a marked rise in the treatment of certain conditions – physical and mental – is harming, not protecting, public…
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Dante’s divine autofiction
How the Italian poet’s search for self-knowledge changed the course of literature.
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Art and the ruins of the left
Can painting alter the course of our politics?
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Where to find meaning
As Christianity in Britain declines, two new books ask: what should we believe in now?
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Making China great again
The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd writes that Xi Jinping has embraced an assertive nationalism that aims to put…
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The inattention pandemic
The tyranny of social media has made us all minor celebrities: exhausted and narcissistic.
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Shon Faye and the problem of love
In this memoir-cum-manifesto, the author explores the politicised nature of love – and why it seems to elude us.
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The long reign of the Caesars
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
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The woman who made the rape kit
This story of Martha Goddard’s forensic method does more than reclaim her role in history – it gives her a…
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