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Pomegranate Peace

Pomegranate Peace

Life on the American compound in Kabul in 2011. One American diplomat finds it akin to incarceration in a high-security prison.

2022

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Feb 2

Blessed are the games

Sport becomes a secular creed. Hunger Games prequel. New high priests

Blessed are the games

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Sep 17, 2025

New US franchise has no golden arches

A novel about the descent into totalitarianism. And a history of the new right’s ideas

New US franchise has no golden arches

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Aug 21, 2025

Out of Africa…with hope

We hear from South Korea’s ‘man in Africa’. And rebirth in bloodied Sierra Leone

Out of Africa…with hope

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The New Climate.

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Mar 7, 2023

Seeing the back of the Automobile Age

Can this really be true? Are young people in the global north really falling out of love with the automobile?

Seeing the back of the Automobile Age

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Jul 4

America @250: The whole world played a role

New book links India into 1776. Updike’s classic novel anticipated Trump and MAGA

America @250: The whole world played a role

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Jun 28

Heatwave: Code red for our warming world

A factual book that reads like horror fiction. A novel set in a blazing summer 50 years ago

Heatwave: Code red for our warming world

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Jun 20

Pakistan wants to be Trump’s BFF

Two diplomats on the troubled DC-Islamabad relationship. And a thriller that’s all too real

Pakistan wants to be Trump’s BFF

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Jun 11

It’s all kicking off. Football and politics

Brand new book gives World Cup a red card. A bestseller on the beautiful game’s history

It’s all kicking off. Football and politics

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Jun 1

The ‘second liberation’ of Bangladesh?

A repost, after talking to Tahmima Anam, whose new novel has a remarkable uprising

The ‘second liberation’ of Bangladesh?

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Jun 1

The sauces that explain why Taiwan isn’t Chinese

Taiwan, long seen as a potential flashpoint for a superpower showdown, has become an even bigger question mark after Donald Trump’s meeting…

The sauces that explain why Taiwan isn’t Chinese

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Rashmee Roshan Lall

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