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Berlin or bust

Can a European Union chafing under German leadership and struggling to restore a sense of collective purpose do more to connect with its people? Tony Barber reviews ‘The Passage to Europe’, ‘The Lost Continent’ and ‘German Europe’

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Correspondence course

Personally reticent, intellectually generous letters from one of Italy’s finest postwar writers. Christopher Tayler reviews ‘Italo Calvino’, edited by Michael Wood

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Remade in Manhattan

An accomplished novel of how family history haunts one young woman’s life. George Pendle reviews ‘Constance’, by Patrick McGrath

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Hell is other people

This new blockbuster leaves us confused. AN Wilson reviews ‘Inferno’, by Dan Brown

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Death by a thousand cuts

A study of public health in times of recession. Clive Cookson reviews ‘The Body Economic’, by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu

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

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David Baldacci: What does it mean to be a writer? To never stop being a kid. I pretend I’m 10 again

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Criminal minds

The impact of biological factors on violent behaviour. Julian Baggini reviews ‘The Anatomy of Violence’, by Adrian Raine

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Liberty on the march

How aristocratic politicians began the process of extending the vote to all Britons. Sue Gaisford reviews ‘Perilous Question’, by Antonia Fraser

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In brief

David Evans reviews ‘Petite Mort’, by Beatrice Hitchman

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In brief

Reviews of ‘Film Freak’, by Christopher Fowler; ‘Nijinsky’, by Lucy Moore

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Everest, 60 years on

In the anniversary year of Hillary and Tenzing’s conquest of Everest, a crop of new books explores what has changed in those Himalayan heights since 1953. By Carl Wilkinson

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