So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure

Extra-judicial killing and its long aftermath forms the core of Linda Kinstler’s remarkable new book

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Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth

The good, the beautiful and the grotesque

Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death

There is better crime fiction being written

Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents

A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem

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