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Heads are scratched, dictionaries consulted and references unearthed in an effort to understand the attack on Jeremy Corbyn Sign up for th...

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Oscar winning film-maker emerged from the American independent scene, and went on to direct a string of major social-issue films in subseque...

Agency, by the famously prescient SF author, imagines an alternative US where voters have elected their first female president Science fict...

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A Small Death, the Saudi novelist’s historical novel about a Sufi mystic and adventurer, takes $50,000 honour for ‘striking artistry’ A his...

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