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THE JANUS POINT • A New Theory of Time
‘Be Ready to Fight’
A Taste for the Difficult
Chemical Warfare’s Home Front
Life in a Glass House
What Price Wholeness?
To Err Is Poetic
Seeing the CCP Clearly
‘A Very Lonely Business’
‘My Eyes Are Infamously Greedy’
SOME OF THE BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle of a Death Ignored
Inheriting Hunger
RAIN
Medicine Is Made for Men
A Sickness in the Air
Terror After ‘Charlie Hebdo’