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National literatures
Tim Parks’s questions about whether there is such ...
Bearing up
A footnote to Fleur Adcock, who died on October 10...
Special organic laws and presidential vetoes
The total or partial veto of a law should never be...
Court ruling sets back Bunge’s rescue of Argentine...
A high court set back the takeover by Bunge Global...
Libertine leading the people
Tucked away in the medieval manuscripts of the wor...
Winning the hunger game
The memoir My Good Bright Wolf avoids the first pe...
Sherlock’s home
Scores of actors have played Sherlock Holmes since...
Bodies on beds
Four years ago Tracey Emin was diagnosed with a ca...
The flowering of his secret
This selection of stories and personal recollectio...
Retired from the disco floor
It is the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen has ...
A face but no head
How Barbara Molinard’s collection of stories, Pani...
A scientist of the future
Richard Dawkins begins The Genetic Book of the Dea...
Blame the men
The majority of the Catalan novelist Mercè Rodored...
Minority report
In December 2022 Donald Trump blithely called for ...
A Union of crowns
The term “regime change”, Susan Doran informs read...
The ape that made up its mind
There is something exceptional about human intelli...
In the script
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making books in the Midd...
Book burning
An old story goes that following a public debate b...
Nouveau shaman
In Osgood Perkins’s recent serial-killer chiller L...