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Andy Warhol shopping for Campbell’s soup at his local supermarket in New York, 1965

Triumph of the ordinary

Four books testify that debate continues to rage around Andy Warhol’s contribution – his early versus his late works – and his role as Pop artist versus philosopher versus celebrity, writes Jackie Wullschlager
Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
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How Markets Fail

John Cassidy provides a thoroughly readable history of how the modern economics profession has developed over the past century – and lost its way, writes Gillian Tett

Contact!

Judging by this high-spirited collection of vignettes from a hectically peripatetic life, Jan Morris, the Anglo-Welsh travel writer, is still going strong well into her 80s

The Hammer and the Cross

Robert Ferguson shows a novelist’s eye for structure, telling ’Viking history’ from the burial of the Oseberg ship in the early 9th century and the heathen cults behind it

Czechoslovakia

Mary Heimann’s polemical account attacks a national myth and stimulates interest in a country often ignored in the great sweep of 20th-century European history

The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

Edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn, this valuable compendium brings together over 30 experts who set out a kind of primer for Copenhagen on the economic, political and social implications

Russia and the Arabs

Former Pravda reporter Yevgeny Primakov recounts key political events in the Middle East from the Kremlin’s perspective

Everything is Connected

Daniel Barenboim convincingly suggests that the self-critical discipline of musicians, applied to politics, is perhaps the only recourse to securing peace in the Middle East

Fiction

William Trevor

A two-volume collection gathers together the writer’s complete short fiction and draws attention to his ability to capture and understand the English at home and overseas

To Music

Ketil Bjørnstad diligently maps out a plot that is charged with Gothic intensity in this novel – set in orderly Oslo in the 1960s – that evokes the pathology of adolescent rivalry

Black Water Rising

This debut by Attica Locke about an African American who finds himself implicated in a murder is a virtually seamless marriage of social comment and slick crime action

Lucinella

A minor poet with a self-digesting social circle of critics progresses from party to party and casts an insightful eye over her friends’ and her own deceits and dissatisfactions

Super Girl

Protagonists in Ruth Thomas’s book of short stories range from a Scottish metallurgist at a conference in Berlin to a poet who has found celebrity in old age – all being forced out of their comfort zones

The Original Of Laura

Vladimir Nabokov’s last and previously unpublished novel – an ingenious story about confronting death – is further proof of the Russian writer’s literary talent

The Passport

Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller’s first novel is a poetic chronicle of one family’s desperate attempt to flee Ceausescu’s Romania

Dear Book Doctor

Pregnant pause

I’m about to go on maternity leave. Will anyone remember me or take me seriously when I return?

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The Children’s Book

Book cover of The Children’s Book by AS Byatt

The gorgeous shade of blue in AS Byatt’s latest novel mimics the look of a leather-bound book with gold stamping of a jewelled dragonfly

Small Talk

José Saramago

Jose Saramago

Who is my perfect reader? The reader who, when moved by what he or she has read, looks up from the page for a moment before continuing to read