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  • Alien civilisations

    The Chinese science fiction epic "3 Body Problem" hits our screens amid geopolitical rivalry and intrigue

  • How the cuppa changed the world

    A visit to the “茶, चाय, Tea” exhibition at the Horniman Museum and Gardens will ensure you'll never look at the humble cuppa the same way again

  • Book review: Rural

    Part memoir, part history, "Rural" explores a neglected side of working-class life in Britain

  • Book review: My Hijacking

    Martha Hodes' story of the 1970 hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is also a study on memory

  • Book review: The God Desire

    David Baddiel's account of his personal journey away from faith is witty and thought-provoking

  • Book review: The Prince and the Plunder

    A fascinating, haunting book on the young boy who was "stolen" by the British, along with Ethiopia's treasures

  • The surprising history of British drag

    Jacob Bloomfield's new book, "Drag: A British History", is an excellent introduction to the complexities of drag as “a queer art form”

  • In a word: Ivory tower

    Suella Braverman is the latest politician to weaponise the term "ivory tower", but the idea has been around at least since the seventeenth century

  • Book review: Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius

    Ann-Helén Laestadius' novel is a sometimes shocking account of the persecution faced by the Sámi people and their resistance

  • Why the Philip Guston exhibition caused a storm at the Tate

    The politics of art: In 2020, amid the #BlackLivesMatter protests, it was Guston's representations of the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan that caused controversy. But in his own day, it was his rejection of abstraction that led to him being shunned from the New York art scene

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