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Sameer Rahim / December 17, 2018
Robert Alter's new translation of the Hebrew Bible draws out the literariness of the...
George Magnus / December 17, 2018
Under President Xi, the focus is on policies favouring state-owned enterprises
Prospect Team / December 14, 2018
The historian answers Prospect's brief encounter questions—including why he wants to be...
Tom Clark / December 14, 2018
However convulsive Britain's current crisis might get, there are reasons to remain hopeful
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Scrooge and Co weren't Charles Dickens' only Christmas cast. If you're ready for a...
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Ray Monk / December 13, 2018
The great theory of this emaciated genius of philosophy defeated the finest minds of the...
AL Kennedy / December 13, 2018
We are often embarrassed by the protruding olfactory equipment on our faces. But noses...
Wendell Steavenson / December 12, 2018
Consumer demand shows we want to be better at recycling. We worry about plastic and...
Clive James / December 11, 2018
Larkin’s correspondence with his mother put him in touch with the precious texture of...
Frank Close / December 11, 2018
Man’s first steps on the Moon seemed like the beginning of an extraordinary new chapter...
Lyn Gardner / December 10, 2018
Soap actor, serious playwright, and now artistic director, Kwei-Armah is still fighting...
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Prospect Team / December 14, 2018
The historian answers Prospect's brief encounter questions—including why he wants to be...
Tom Clark / December 14, 2018
However convulsive Britain's current crisis might get, there are reasons to remain hopeful
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Prospect Team / December 13, 2018
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An industry that should be banned for its harmful distortion of sex—or something we...
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A special double issue with new writing from Clive James, Hannah Fry, Justin Welby, Cathy Newman, AL Kennedy and more! Plus: the fiction special and Prospect's books of the year
Timothy Garton Ash says Britain could pull back from the Brexit brink and lead EU reform from within. David Allen Green says that if we must leave, there is a better way to do it. Plus: a new exhibition punctures the clichés around Islamic art
Paul Collier argues that an overhaul of capitalism is needed to solve regional inequality. Plus: the woman who voted in 1868, why the Foreign Office isn't ready for Brexit, and the 23-year-old setting out to change Pakistan
How one website is poisoning our political discourse. Plus: Will Self on liberalism, the truth about Oxford admissions, and the real John McDonnell