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Churchill's reputation
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies
Pleasure
Cooking, nature, music, colour - what's your lockdown pleasure?
Frantz Fanon
Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
Syria: hope and poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Ten researchers look at colonial history, alphabets, punctuation, poetry, art terminology
Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records
