Culture wars and the risk to liberal democracy; inside the lives and business empire of the Barclay brothers; a new translation of ‘The Iliad’ stirs antifeminist rage; a history of protest movements; a posthumous memoir by Jonathan Raban; the heroine of Orwell’s ‘1984’ takes centre stage; a Dantean novel of slavery in the American South; the rise of Putin, as told by a fictional spin-doctor
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