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The Guardian » 5 days ago
Philosopher Simon Critchley’s painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity’s great outliersI sometimes think of mysticism – the name we give to ecstatic, transformative experiences of absorptio...
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The Guardian » 5 days ago
This fascinating history of Nikolai Vavilov and the staff at his plant institute tells a story of almost unbelievable self-sacrifice while under siege during the second world warIs there any human endeavour as heroic or under-appreciated as plant collecting? When in 1921,...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Medicare and Social Security represent successes in facing the realities of aging, but their imperfections also show how much more could be done....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The Outsider by Jane Casey; White City by Dominic Nolan; The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz; The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood; Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Royalties earned from The Golden Mole, published in the US this week as Vanishing Treasures, will be given towards counteracting ‘the election of a climate-change denier’British author Katherine Rundell will give all the royalties from one of her books to climate charitie...
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The Guardian » 4 days ago
Adolescent passions shape our future selves, and can be every bit as powerful – and perilous – as adult relationshipsI haven’t kept many things from my teenage years. I have a box of photos – hazy snapshots from holidays and parties, captured on disposable camera...
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The Guardian » 5 days ago
A former MI5 agent establishes herself as a heroine for the ages in a fresh thriller about intelligence-gatherers past and presentAnyone who has enjoyed Henry Porter’s excellent series of Paul Samson spy thriller novels will be pleased to hear that he has a new protagonis...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
This remarkable memoir by the bold and fearless Russian opposition leader describes an extraordinary life, from a childhood in the shadow of Chornobyl to surviving a novichok attack and his final days in a remote Arctic penal colonyAlexei Navalny knew how it would end: “I...
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LA Times » 3 weeks ago
The Russian dissident's posthumous memoir, "Patriot," is funny, tragic and somehow optimistic about the future of his beloved country....
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The Guardian » 2 days ago
The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear Stay With Me is a brief novel, but the whole is overshadowed by fear. The narrator, a Norwegian novelist living in Milan, recalls her childhood in the book’s op...
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