Society
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The American reporter’s account of the birth of the BLM movement is well researched but doesn’t quite bring the protesters to life
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Three vivid memoirs reveal the horrific pull – and possible benefits – of illicit substances
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The great social activist’s collection of essays on the African American experience became a founding text of the civil rights movement
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This lively study explores aspects of the Victorians’ notoriously strange attitude to the body
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The critics had their say, now it’s time for readers to pick their books of the year – from diaries to dictionaries and emperors to existentialists
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The author on his recovery after a stroke and his fears for a dis-United States
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These essays on life in the 21st century, which range from Occupy to fitness, are coolly stylish and drily funny
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If we ask the right questions and answer them honestly, won’t the whole edifice of patriarchy come tumbling down?
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Cities are now segregated by height, with the world’s wealthiest living high, argues this fascinating book
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There are film snobs, garden snobs and inverse snobs, not just people who send their children to elite private schools. Snobbery is in all classes and is a very human failing
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Slang has always evolved one step ahead of the mainstream. But how is it changing in the digital age, when a ‘wrong’ word so easily offends?
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Grayson Perry’s timely, accessible book explores how rigid masculine roles can destroy men’s lives
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The author explains how the experiences of sex and sexuality revealed in frank interviews for her book reveal some little-heard truths
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This book, by Louisa Thomsen Brits, is one of many titles on ‘hygge’ and the Danish way of living. But hygge has a dark side – what if the price of ‘cosiness’ isn’t worth paying?
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James Flynn is a hero to many for his work on genes and IQ, but his latest book, Does Your Family Make You Smarter?, contains provocative claims about black parenting
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The Guardian writer’s vital study humanises the poor murder victims whose deaths went largely unnoticed
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Gray has written a charming and eye-opening book about her year spent eating creatures only she had killed. She points the way to a reduced-meat future
Now We Are 40 by Tiffanie Darke review – a generation lost to hedonism and irony?