Hirsh Sawhney files a lockdown dispatch from New Haven, Connecticut, the uneasy home of Yale University; Arin Keeble talks us through the tricksy, rewarding and under-known work of Percival Everett; Lauren Kassel on the history of astrology, one of the oldest, most complex, intellectually powerful – and controversial – sciences
Telephone by Percival Everett
A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the birth of science by Alexander Boxer
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Nature for sale
Unromancing the Romantics
Loving Iris Murdoch
Who reads John Updike?
Talk to the hands
Summer Books 2019
Russian greats and fictional eats
Ethical economics
Weighty matters
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
Victoria at 200
Knowing laughter
Journey to the centre of the earth
To infinities – and beyond
The life-writing issue
Ian McEwan – an interview
As we like it
Youth injustice system
Whitechapel and Weimar
A deep history of Europe
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Urban Lady Prepper
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Dairyland Frights
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