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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in this novel by Inez Holden

Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper

Syria: hope and poetry
An architect who lived in Homs during the war, a translator of Adonis and a media analyst

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi

Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Ten researchers look at colonial history, alphabets, punctuation, poetry, art terminology

Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations

New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
John Gallagher talks to four researchers uncovering lives from past census records

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle

Edward Said's thinking
Rana Mitter reads the first biography of the Palestinian academic, pianist and negotiator

The Vietnam Paris connection
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet