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  • Walking the tightrope

    Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of Iran’'s pre-eminent intellectuals, was released on bail on August 30, after being held for more than four months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. He is accused of fomenting a ‘velvet revolution’. Here he explains why he feels compelled to champion liberalism

  • Eric, Eileen and Norah

    Newly discovered letters shed light on the inner life of Orwell’'s wife, writes Jenny Joseph

  • Death missions

    Can Japanese kamikaze pilots be compared with today's suicide bombers? Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney reads those young airmen's diaries