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Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

Unearthing women’s most closely guarded stories

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A portrait of a Bavarian town gripped by National Socialism

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am