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The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

In The Snag, Tessa McWatt reflects on grief in all its multifaceted forms – from her mother’s dementia to global climate ...

We asked novelists to anthropologists, scientists, criminologists and experts in politics, publishing & philosophy for their favourite books.

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In a review written in 2013 of John Williamson’s “Stoner,” Tim Kreider snagged the attention of  The New Yorker readers with this title: “The Greatest American Novel You’ve Never Heard of.” This year, ...