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The Best 21st-Century German Novels

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"As Germany has come to accept that it is a country that many people immigrate to, we’re getting a lot of exciting writing out of that."
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There's always been a fondness in the English-speaking world for novels about German history, but recently the books being translated into English have become much more diverse and interesting, says…

The magazine editor, journalist and biographer of Ayn Rand selects five books that define the essence of libertarianism. Atlas Shrugged is first on her list

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"Ayn Rand was born Alyssa Rosenburg in St Petersburg, Russia, and was 12 when the Russian Revolution took place and all her family’s property was snatched."
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Libertarianism

Which are the best books on atheism? The philosopher and author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction chooses his top five.

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"Atheism, on the face of it, seems straightforward: it’s not theism. It’s a belief that there is no God or gods. But it’s slightly more complicated than that...."
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Atheism

The Best Romance Books of 2021

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"Book sales soared during the lockdown months because people turned to books for joy and comfort during an incredibly difficult year."
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The best romance books of 2021, as chosen by romantic fiction junkie and popular romance blogger, Natasha Tomic

It's hard to understand what's going on in the Xinjiang region of China and the nationalism of the Uyghurs who live there without reading some history. Here Professor Michael Dillon, a historian at…

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"Following the Second World War and in the early phase of the Cold War, it was assumed that there was an unbreakable alliance between the Soviet Union and China."
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Uyghur Nationalism

The best Brexit books, as recommended by Boris Starling, journalist and Bluffer's Guide to Brexit author. Find your Brexit book.

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"For a long time no one ever talked about politics. It was a boring thing to be endured every general election. Suddenly it was everywhere."
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Brexit

Economics in the Real World

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"Economies and businesses are organic entities that evolve over time and operate within a social context. You can’t look at them independently of that."
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Most people completing degrees in economics won't have read these books, but they should, says British economist John Kay.

The poet, novelist and author of memoirs explores parallels between faith in the divine and commitment to a worldly erotic passion, and books that show you can have purity within licentiousness.

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"You hear almost nothing about the sexual act. The pleasure is instantly pain, because it’s about loss. And this is what adultery is about, particularly for women. It always ends in loss, in devastation."
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Adultery

Books on Black Icons for Children

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“About 80 percent of children’s book authors, editors, illustrators, marketers and reviewers are white worldwide”
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Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins discuss books that that tell the life stories of some of the greatest black icons in history – and why reading books that celebrate these extraordinary lives can be…

The best blockchain books, as recommended by Kevin Werbach, professor at Wharton business school and author of Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust

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"Everywhere you look, you see either problems with potentially trusted institutions being untrustworthy, or gaps in trust which lead to all sorts of inefficiencies."
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Blockchain

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist

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"For the prize, the criteria the judges are looking for are pretty clear. It’s about the originality of the book: quite simply, we’re looking for something that we don’t feel that we’ve read before."
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Every year the judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize pick out the best nonfiction books published in the United Kingdom over the previous 12 months. Author and books journalist Caroline Sanderson,…

The author of a modern, inkblot-based character test, Will Hobson, discusses the history and cultural resonances of the inkblot, from Hugo to Warhol

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"People have always been interested in seeing things – seeing things in the clouds, in tea leaves, in blots of ink. It stimulates their imagination, and in some cases they feel they’ve learned something."
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Inkblots

Mary Berry has written over 70 books, but what are her own favourite cookbooks? Here she shares her top five with us.

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Mary Berry’s favourite cookbooks
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Favourite Cookbooks

The Best History Books for 8-10 year olds

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“Reading history is like experiencing another life.”
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Are you trying to get your son or daughter into reading more history? Here Alex, a 10-year old boy living in Oxfordshire in the UK, shares some of his favourite history books.

Gardening expert Helen Dillon recommends five books that have influenced her, from 300-year old gardening tips to the difficulty of describing flowers

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"He used to be holding the thing that he was describing in his hands. It could be a flower, leaf or fruit, and he would be describing it just as he saw it, rather than looking it up anywhere else."
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Gardening

Five key diet books, as recommended by Tim Spector – genetic epidemiologist and the author of Spoon Fed and The Diet Myth.

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“All diet books are fatally flawed because they suggest there’s only one way to do things”
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Diet Books

The Best Military History Books

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“How On War has been received has varied from generation to generation”
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The best military history books, as recommended by military historian SIr Hew Strachan.

The Best Literary Love Stories

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The acclaimed novelist Lily King—whose new book Heart the Lover unravels the long tail of a campus love triangle—recommends five novels from literary writers that examine romance and desire in the depth they deserve.

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Five of the best literary love stories, as selected by the novelist Lily King—author of Heart the Lover and Euphoria.

The Best Literary Love Stories

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Five of the best literary love stories, as selected by the novelist Lily King—author of Heart the Lover and Euphoria.

From the classroom to the boardroom, everybody tries (and sometimes fails) to be liked and admired by others. In this interview, Övül Sezer—Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at…

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"Impression management is the science of how people try to make a favorable impression on others; I study how people fail to make a good impression."
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Making A Good Impression

CEO and founder of Demotix, the multiple-awardwinning open newswire, discusses five books on Islam and Modernity and the politicisation of Islam in the last decade.

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"No serious thinkers today talk about a single ‘Islam’, speaking instead in terms of multiple ‘Islams’."
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Islam and Modernity

The Best Golden Age Mysteries

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"There’s a confusion between the locked room mystery and what other people call the ‘closed circle mystery,’ which is where you just have a limited group of suspects—maybe on an island or in some other restricted community."
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The best golden age mysteries, recommended by Martin Edwards, author of a number of books on the golden age of crime writing.

The biographer and editor of John Berger reveals how Berger's self-characterisation as a storyteller is visible across the numerous genres he writes in.

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"For Berger, rather than be an isolated novelist, he wanted to be a story-teller, to be a conduit through which other people’s stories travel."
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John Berger

Foucault mined past ways of thinking so as to see present-day assumptions afresh, Professor Gary Gutting explains as he selects the best books on the topic.

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"I think, in fact, that for an intellectual like Foucault, the most important story of his life is the story of the books he wrote."
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Foucault