This Week, Those Books

This Week, Those Books

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Help me help you join the dots
...between the world of news and books
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Syria First? State of chaos or cohesion
A study on the country's de facto leaders. How Libya failed itself. And a brutalised Iraq
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Happy 2024, the year of elections
More than half the world's population will vote but all contests aren't equal
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In the little town of Bethlehem, they grieve
Christmas isn't quite Christmas this year, so we go back in time with two literary giants
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Nothing justified Oct 7. Does Oct 7 justify everything?*
Ta-Nehisi Coates travels among Palestinians. A US policy veteran sums it all up
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We have a winner...
It's Stephen Hanchey in Thailand, one of our more than 7,000 friends in 99 countries
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TikTok and the X factor
Why you either love it or hate it. And Ismail Kadare on a different sort of mind control
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Gunshots in America: A politics of violence
An expert brings order to the debate. And a novel on a country's collective trauma
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Sending Syrians home
A young man tells his story. And a feast to remember
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Germans are protesting like it’s 1933
The rise of the far right, a philosophical response and one couple’s resistance
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Power Vs perception: Leaders at Nato
Obama's ally on letting go and a fictional portrait of a real-life despot who didn't
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Europe debates its destiny – and Ukraine
An ode to the grand project of ever-closer union and Brussels fun and games
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