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The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

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America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern ...

Since 1993, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has honoured the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel. Drawing attention to the poorly written, redundant, or ...

The money part is solid golden age. And, of course, now utterly vanished. Carter is from Ottawa, a sensible capital city of ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. When Augusto Pinochet arrived in London for medical treatment in 1998, he was surprised to find himself ...

The early Stuarts are back in fashion. Within a year, three major books on the subject have appeared: one by Susan Doran, examining the change of dynasty from the Tudors, another by Stephen Alford on ...

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British constitutional experts have a lot to get their teeth into in 2020. The last three years have exposed several fault lines: over parliamentary procedure, the interaction of direct and ...