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Gaddafi’s last stand

Michael Peel examines three accounts of the sudden unravelling of Muammer Gaddafi’s brutal regime in Libya

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Murdoch diminished?

The world in which he moved so freely and with such power is closing in on Rupert Murdoch. John Lloyd reviews four books that explore the media mogul’s creaking empire

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Pankaj Mishra on Susan Sontag

The second volume of her journals, ‘As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh’, focuses on her intellectual formation and unlikely status as an American icon

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Tomb raiders

From King Tutankhamen’s tomb to the Rosetta Stone, Egyptology enters the 21st century and proves to be something worth further studies

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Titanic, 100 years on

As a symbol of empire, pride and class, the 1912 disaster continues to fuel our thirst for metaphor and moral fable, says AN Wilson

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Primo Levi’s scientific life

The Italian author and Auschwitz survivor’s radical chemistry-inspired memoir ‘The Periodic Table’ paved the way for popular science writing

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The west’s illusions about Afghanistan

Anatol Lieven reviews accounts of western failure to solve the Taliban problem in ‘Pakistan on the Brink’, ‘Bazaar Politics’ and ‘When More is Less’

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The king and I

The power struggle between Thomas Becket and Henry II reverberates in John Guy’s biography of the archbishop

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American nightmare

The FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator reviews ‘The World America Made’, ‘The Age of Austerity’, ‘After America’ and ‘Becoming China’s Bitch’

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Fight your fate

Do advances in neuroscience give the lie to free will? Only if you define it narrowly, writes Julian Baggini

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