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Sunday, 14 May 2017

The Chinese who helped win WW1

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Daryl Klein’s book With the Chinks is an example of why we should not censor or bowdlerise the past. Let it speak for itself, and it ma...
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Friday, 28 April 2017

The Great War in modern voice

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The First World War produc ed a blizzard of books. Many are still read. Yet one of the best has been largely forgotten. Written with a mode...
Sunday, 11 December 2016

We, the people

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Since 2016, populism has changed the political map of the western world – and there’s plenty more to come. But what is populism? Does it h...
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Mike Robbins is the author of six books: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014), a novel; The Nine Horizons (2014), a collection of travel pieces; Three Seasons, a trio of novellas; Even the Dead are Coming (2009), a memoir of life as a volunteer in Eastern Sudan; Crops and Carbon (2011), about agriculture and climate change; and a novella, Dog! (2015). He was born in London but has lived in many countries. (Pic: S. Ligabue)
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