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Zombies may be popular but they’re definitely not PC. A British academic has revealed their racist roots.
Composer keeps his head
Julian Barnes’s 12th novel explores the life of musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich under the Soviet regime.
Pundits flub the foresight test
Media pundits often get it wrong, but attentive readers can be surprisingly accurate.
Living with the undead
Zombies may be popular but they’re definitely not PC. A British academic has revealed their racist roots.
Consequences of combat
Two new collections reflect on the quandaries thrown up by war in the 21st century.
It’s a small world after all
Room, a film that sees a mother and son trapped in an unbearable existence, shows what human beings are capable of.
Outback nightmare
The late Kenneth Cook created a hellish vision in his novel Wake in Fright. Now there’s a new full-throttle thriller.
Faith beggars belief
Mind Beyond Matter explores what the author regards as the differences between brain and mind, matter and energy.
The abandoned and the restless
Dystopias, history and the rich feature in novels by Marlee Jane Ward, Richard McHugh, Harrison Young and Louis Armand.
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