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October 5, 2018Roald Dahl had long delighted children with his tales of giant peaches, chocolate factories, marvellous medicines and champions of the world. He had beguiled young readers with...
September 14, 2018From the outside, 29 Harley Street looks like any other office block in central London. But it is an entry port to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's term for a virtual country...
September 7, 2018The title of the British edition of the sixth and final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's “My Struggle” seems self-explanatory. But what exactly is it that is coming...
August 10, 2018Open-source intelligence is the art of learning things by procuring and analysing unclassified (if not always very accessible) evidence. Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on arms control and...
July 27, 2018Margaret Thatcher is said to have carried a copy of the “Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith's most famous work, in her handbag. Britain's most famous economist appears on the...
July 20, 2018Alan Dershowitz has had a pair of alternative covers mocked up for his new book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump”. On one, which the celebrity legal scholar means to...
July 6, 2018Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character's successor may be David Graeber. In 2013 he achieved viral fame with cubicle...
June 29, 2018In his novel “The Radetzky March”, published in 1932, Joseph Roth traces the changing fortunes of the Trotta family amid the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire....
June 15, 2018One of them was a publishing machine with scores of bestsellers under his belt. The other knew the White House like the back of his hand (because he lived in it for eight years)....
June 1, 2018For obvious reasons, interest in the process of impeaching an American president is soaring. But public understanding of what that would entail is not. The constitution calls for...- May 25, 2018For obvious reasons, interest in the process of impeaching an American president is soaring. But public understanding of what that would entail is not. The constitution calls...
