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Books & arts (Don’t) always look on the bright side of life Nick Haslam 25 July 2023 How best to deal with dark moods? Books & arts Sense and sensibility Sara Dowse 17 July 2023 Philosopher Clare Carlisle chronicles the interaction of George Eliot’s public and private lives Retrospective Buckle and strain Patrick Mullins 16 July 2023 In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own? Books & arts The self-fashioning of George Orwell Peter Marks 13 July 2023 A new biography probes the gap between the kind of person the writer was and the kind of person he imagined himself to be

Books & arts Three “bloody difficult” subjects Tim Rowse 4 July 2023 Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian… Books & arts Mobile generations Jock Given 28 June 2023 Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends Books & arts The country we are still to be Henry Reynolds 22 June 2023 Stan Grant’s The Queen is Dead reviewed Books & arts The ambiguity of hope Nick Haslam 15 June 2023 Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?

Books & arts And so on Frank Yuan 22 May 2023 A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek From the archive President Wilson on the couch Nick Haslam 16 May 2023 What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president? Books & arts Slicing the tide Marian Quartly 16 May 2023 English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history Books & arts Global reach Michael Gill 15 May 2023 Do asset managers own the world?