Ideas in literature
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‘The Three-Body Problem’: Liu Cixin’s novel is a heady blend of ethics, physics and Chinese history
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How ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgeling environmental movement and the new science of ecology
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How literature and art can help us rethink our problems with sleep
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Gregor Samsa, the vermin: Reading Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ while Palestinians are killed
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‘Intercourse’: Why Andrea Dworkin’s radical critique of male power resonates with Gen Z feminists
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Slavoj Žižek: What do the ‘celebrity’ philosopher’s key ideas really tell us?
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How Francis Fukuyama’s idea ‘the end of history’ may have been misinterpreted
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Our interest in imagining future worlds is dying, says sci-fi author William Gibson
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Can these great writers and thinkers help us understand the current political mess around the world?
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#MeToo: How can literature (and publishers) respond to the problems of gender and power?
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Radical nationalist or progressive philosopher? How do we engage with Aurobindo’s ideas today?
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Ayn Rand’s dangerous ideas are becoming increasingly popular and dismissing her is not the solution
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Why Donald Trump’s policy of breaking up immigrant families is straight out of a Dickens novel
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Hannah Arendt famously spoke of the ‘banality of evil’. But did she miss a deeper meaning?
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Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times
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Is state monopoly on violence the price to be paid for an orderly society? Two books offer answers
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How literary rage arms us with a private arsenal to fight the battles that a mob cannot
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How to invent a Tolkien-style language
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The possibilities with a stranger: Complete love or extreme hate