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The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir

At nine years old, Sylvie meets her one great love at school in Paris: her best friend Andrée. The two girls could hardly be more...

This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. This is Your Mind on Plants is his most recent book, consisting of...

Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton

Why Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell

How to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...

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