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by Nil There is something almost unsettling about the fact that Charles Spencer’s most intimate book about Diana begins, in effect, with a question of possession: who knew her best? His mother,
by Durga The most revealing sentence in Lindy Li’s Unburdened may be the one that sounds least like political analysis: “Why did I do it? You want the unvarnished truth…? It was
by Luxman Anthony Scaramucci’s most revealing confession may also be the sentence that prevents All the Wrong Moves from becoming a conventional anti-Trump polemic: “I bought into Donald Trump. That doesn’t reflect
by Eric A family history can begin with a birth certificate, a grave, a photograph or a name. Edward Ball begins somewhere more difficult: with a sexual encounter whose moral meaning cannot
