October 2021 Issue Tim Summers Caught Between Two Empires The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong By Michael Sheridan LR
October 2021 Issue Owen Bennett-Jones Fear & Loathing in the Himalayas Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict By Sumantra Bose
June 2021 Issue Simon Cartledge One Country, One System Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship By Stephen Vines LR
October 2020 Issue Michael Burleigh The View from Beijing Xi Jinping: The Backlash By Richard McGregor China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism By Rana Mitter
September 2020 Issue Rana Mitter One Country, One System Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town By Barbara Demick
May 2019 Issue Humphrey Hawksley The Biggest Fish in the Sea The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century By Parag Khanna The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean By Bertil Lintner LR
April 2019 Issue Jamie Bartlett Who’s Afraid of the World Wide Web? The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet By James Griffiths India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy By Ravi Agrawal
August 2017 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Dog Days Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up By Xiaolu Guo Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China By Scott Savitt LR
June 2017 Issue Nick Holdstock Leaps of Faith The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao By Ian Johnson LR
June 2015 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Wild West China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State By Nick Holdstock LR
August 2008 Issue Kerry Brown War & Peace The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China By Jasper Becker China: A History By John Keay LR
July 2014 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Hole in Yuan The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream By Dan Washburn LR
April 2012 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Copycats & Bamboozles China in Ten Words By Yu Hua (Translated by Allan H Barr) LR
April 2012 Issue Michael Burleigh Going Green After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts By John R Bradley LR
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
Seamus Perry - Before the Beard
Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
@claire_harman considers some of the most entertaining.
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Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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Of all the articles I’ve published in recent years, this is *by far* my favourite.
✍️ On childhood, memory, and the sea - for @Lit_Review :
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