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Also featuring Patria: Lost Countries of South America by Laurence Blair and What Nails It by Greil Marcus.

In Josh Cohen’s All the Rage, a psychoanalyst offers a path through the divisive world of online grievance and populist…

From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.

Her novel Parade, slim but complex, is the latest product of a career dedicated to breaking new formal ground.

The award for inventive fiction goes to a book replete with ideas about art, literature and freedom.

Over a single night in 2015, terrorists killed 130 people in Paris. In Emmanuel Carrère’s account of the ensuing trial,…

In 2022 an accident left the novelist paralysed. His blackly comic memoir, Shattered, is a devastating portrait of an imprisoned…

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