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"What exactly is China anyway? Is it a civilisation, as some claim? Or a “civilisation state”, with unique cultural markers but within set borders?"

"Francis Green and David Kynaston do not like private schools. They think the government should do something to stop children attending them. Why? You already know the answer."

Peter Stanford grew up with a benevolent notion of angels. But the true picture is complicated: while some angels in the Bible are kindly, others are brutal

Linn Ullmann's novel Unquiet interweaves her childhood with conversations with her father Ingmar Bergman — a work of both memory and imagination

"Alan Greenspan was a good Fed chairman, but his reputation was grossly over-inflated"

Paul Dolan's Happy Ever After frustratingly fails to address obvious questions about our idea of happiness

A charming and engaging memoir of a world long gone

The novel in verse is nothing new, but Homer's Iliad is fast-paced and full of surprises

"Samuel Johnson's Rasselas is calculated to destroy the illusions of dreamers"