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Life on the edge

Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’, which shows despair and dreams in an Indian megacity, is as vivid as great fiction

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Austerity bites

Paul Krugman’s ‘End this Depression Now!’ has a good case against spending cuts, but proposals on economy revival are modest

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Pitch battles

Jimmy Burns chronicles the bitter rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona in this vivid survey of Spanish football

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Keep it simple

‘Insanely Simple’, by ad agency executive Ken Segall, tries to explain Apple’s incredible success through one attribute: simplicity itself

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Secret testimony

Kate Summerscale’s ‘Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace’ treats an adultery case as a detective story that sheds light on Victorian life

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Grape nuts

‘The Juice’ compiles columns Jay McInerney wrote on wine, all written with enthusiasm and eloquence

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Confronting our evils

François Bizot’s ‘Facing the Torturer’ is a powerful philosophical meditation on the nature of humanity – and inhumanity

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From west to east

‘Civilization’ by Niall Ferguson identifies the features of western progress to explain the current power shift to China

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The buzz word

Eusociality is the key word at the heart of Edward O Wilson’s ‘The Social Conquest of Earth’

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Shades of Greene

In his literary meditation on the English novelist, Pico Iyer reflects on his own journey in ‘The Man Within My Head’

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