This week, we go in search of the woman who created William Brown, beloved outlaw of the suburbs; and take a look at the sporting scene in the Middle East ahead of this winter’s men’s Fifa World Cup.
‘Richmal Crompton, author of Just William: A Literary Life’ by Jane McVeigh
'Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East', edited by Danyel Reiche and Paul Michael Brannagan
'The Business of the Fifa World Cup', edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Christos Anagnostopoulos and Daniel Parnell
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Narratives of sexual assault
How Macron went wrong
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Everything points north
Reddit's new religions
Egos and experiments
Finer points of murder
Icons familiar and unfamiliar
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
Arts of the Year 2018
Ode to the orca
Who on earth was William Gilbert?
Our problem with cows
The best books of 2018
Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?
WW1: Remembering / forgetting
Remembering Peterloo
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