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April 2025

  • Monochrome photograph of two young men, one black and one white, dancing

    We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – reimagining Black Britain

  • US-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-PROTEST<br>Activists protesting rape during war and supporting Ukraine stand in front of the Russian Consulate in New York on May 28, 2022. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women by Sofi Oksanen – review

  • A Palestinian woman walks past a reconstructed relief ornament in Khirbat al-Mafjar popularly known as Hisham's Palace an early Islamic archaeological site near Jericho, in the West Bank Israel. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.<br>D21PHA A Palestinian woman walks past a reconstructed relief ornament in Khirbat al-Mafjar popularly known as Hisham's Palace an early Islamic archaeological site near Jericho, in the West Bank Israel. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown. FORGOTTEN PALESTINE

    Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

  • Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1987.

    38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

  • Surprise as sealskin is discovered to be cover material of ‘hairy’ medieval books

  • Book of the day
    The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

  • Allies at War by Tim Bouverie review – a revelatory study of second world war alliances

  • Book of the day
    Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

  • We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain

  • Bookmark this
    ‘Blood-pumping’, ‘outstanding’, ‘urgent and essential’: the best Australian books out in April

  • Other lives
    John Seed obituary

  • Other lives
    John McNeill obituary

  • Book of the day
    Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen

March 2025

  • Bob Moore

    Other lives
    Bob Moore obituary

  • Walther Rauff and a Chilean law enforcement official, sitting on the back seat of a car in Chile in 1962.

    Book of the day
    38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

  • Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who until 2024 was Britain’s wealthiest MP.

    Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery

  • a man pointing to a chart

    ‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’ Joe McCarthy and the road to Trump

  • Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’

  • The books of my life
    Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’

  • Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson review – make America build again

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