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Salman Rushdie’s ‘gift of alchemy’ in new novel ‘Victory City’; big business vs big government in America; museums and the ownership of history; Aleksandar Hemon’s ambitious new epic; Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s state-of-Nigeria novel; how to help England’s north; the life of Dick Whittington; terror in rural France — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of new thrillers
Adam Kuper takes a provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution
A bold, compelling attempt to imagine a new future for England’s industrial north by looking at its cultural and progressive past
A sort-of memoir by the pioneering journalist who died in 2021 evades a traditional narrative
The Big Myth shines a harsh light on democratic capitalism and the role of corporate America in redefining government
This courageous account puts the indigenous Americans who came to Europe, most as slaves, at the centre of the story
From the English countryside to Bulgaria’s herbalists, healers and horse whisperers — two books let the landscape tell the tale of our unsustainable lives
Tania Branigan’s intimate stories of survivors capture a traumatic decade for many that still informs modern China
Dolphin communication expert Justin Gregg sets out his thinking about the problem with intelligence
Isolationist superpower or still ‘the world’s policeman’? Two books explore the competing impulses in US politics
Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France
From direct air carbon capture to the prospects for 100 per cent renewables — plus a sea voyage into a more sustainable future
Geoffrey Robertson demolishes the myth that England is a longstanding bastion of free speech
. . . but getting the messaging correct is not always child’s play
Heather Radke investigates the symbolism and history of women’s backsides in her rigorously researched debut
Several books explore the reality of the workplace and how corporate spaces may blur with the home
Normally our job is to be invisible and to show the same curiosity about public figures as readers will
A riveting account of how secretaries were left behind in the fight for equality in the workplace
Is the term ‘white privilege’ doing more harm than good? Three insightful books look at anti-Semitism, migration and class amid the battle to end racism
The ultimate destination in this latest book by the pilgrim-cum-travel writer is more a state of being than a place
A South Korean classic about tycoons, ghosts and cinephiles that blends folklore and magical realism
Marion Turner’s biography of Chaucer’s greatest creation charts how Alison of Bath has lived on in the popular imagination
From historian Serhii Plokhy on the war in Ukraine to a fresh take on the Cultural Revolution and the latest by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie, a preview of this year’s titles
Natasha Lance Rogoff’s ‘crazy true’ tale of taking the hit television show to Russia in the 1990s
Stark images of the sites of mass shootings punctuate this passionate account of the toll wrought by firearms
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