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Mind field

Known as the ‘psychiatric bible’, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders appears in a fifth edition this month. Talitha Stevenson explores the controversies surrounding its release

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American elegy

Portraits of the famous and the obscure reveal a dream in decline. A review of ‘The Unwinding’, by George Packer

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The long wait is over

Simon Schama enjoys James Salter’s new novel - but prefers his ‘perfect’ short stories. A review of ‘All That Is’ and ‘Collected Stories

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Govern for growth

A former British minister and retailer makes the case for an activist state. A review of ‘Progressive Capitalism’, by David Sainsbury

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Community tensions

A short story collection set in a 1950s kibbutz. Rebecca Abrams reviews ‘Between Friends’, by Amos Oz

The Monday Review

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A welcome contribution that signals the need for a deep debate about the direction of India’s economy

Perfectly formed

Lydia Davis wins the 2013 Man Booker International prize for fiction

Front cover of 'Here and Now' NON-FICTION May 24, 2013

Auster and Coetzee, by letter

An old-fashioned literary exchange enlightens and entertains. Ian Thomson reviews ‘Here and Now’, by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee

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Back to school

A year of playground politics. Isabel Berwick reviews ‘The Hive’, by Gill Hornby

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No more rules

A physicist argues that time is the only constant. A review of ‘Time Reborn’, by Lee Smolin

Birds fly around The Freedom Monument honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence from1918 to 1920 is pictured on March 21, 2013 in Riga, Latvia ©Getty FICTION May 24, 2013

From the mind’s eye

A tale that explores the instability of memory. Maria Crawford reviews ‘A Box Of Birds’, by Charles Fernyhough

Book cover of The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley NON-FICTION May 24, 2013

Unfinished history

AN Wilson enjoys an aristocratic family chronicle – as far as it goes. A review of ‘The Devonshires’, by Roy Hattersley

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