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Feb 22, 2013
Why are so many people drawn to the restless scepticism of philosopher John Gray? Julian Baggini reviews ‘The Silence of Animals’
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Philip Stephens
Feb 15, 2013
The FT chief political commentator’s review of ‘The Great Convergence’, ‘The End of Power’ and ‘Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century’
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Feb 8, 2013
Andrew Clark on contrasting biographies that show the tension between the composer’s public and private lives
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Feb 1, 2013
A new history of the first Anglo-Afghan war from 1839 to 1842 describes the consequences of political ignorance and military folly in the region. Review by Anatol Lieven
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Jan 25, 2013
The devastating account of a survivor sent to Auschwitz as an 11-year-old boy. Simon Schama reviews ‘Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death’, by Otto Dov Kulka
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Jan 11, 2013
As Jane Austen’s best-loved novel turns 200, Paula Byrne looks at its roots in the great events of the author’s time
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Dec 28, 2012
Millions of Indian soldiers served the British during the second world war, yet their experience has largely been forgotten. By Raghu Karnad
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Michael Skapinker
Dec 21, 2012
Three new histories of language and of dictionaries spell out the resistance to linguistic change
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Dec 14, 2012
Alan Ryan’s ‘On Politics’ is a triumph of erudition but focuses too heavily on the west, writes John Keane
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Dec 7, 2012
As the world of print recedes, Andrew Martin reviews ‘Book Was There’ by Andrew Piper, ‘Paper: An Elegy’ by Ian Sansom and Philip Hensher’s ‘The Missing Ink’