Eighteen months after Emmanuel Macron rode a wave of optimism to the Élysée Palace, the French are rioting and the President's approval ratings are desperately low – Sudhir Hazareesingh tells us what went wrong; James O'Brien reflects on another week of Brexit bafflement; Laura Freeman introduces the "Hungry Novel", a sub-genre of the post-war British novel in which writers, subsisting on meagre rations of stodge and tinned goods, channelled their appetites into their prose
Carnival of Darkness
Give Me Your Heart
A Constant State of Foreignness
Best of 2021
Best of 2021
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This Is Magic
On not letting it be
George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
Books of the Year 2021
The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window
The Booker-winner and the Beatle
Wild Lives
Doom, Faith and Sabotage
Radical Turns
The Autumn Livres
E.M. Forster's Happy Solution
When the Flawed Succeed
Survival of the Wittiest
Sad and Twisted Stories
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