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You can forget the advice on disguises, secret codes and spreading propaganda by dropping leaflets in train carriages. But there is something for us all here about the need for action, writes Zoe Williams

THE UK Government has been accused of refusing to release documents about Prince Andrew’s past role as a trade envoy, according to reports ...

The Guardian journalist’s tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdom

This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery

Sarah Brigham’s new production is beautifully designed but struggles to capture the drama’s claustrophobic tension

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America’s schools

A new perspective on the birth of New York; a magic realist story about a broken-down songwriter; and a resonant tale about a diver keeping the internet’s undersea network alive

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies

THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious New York-based editor Graydon Carter travels back in time to the ‘golden era’ of print magazines, painting a picture of six-figure salaries, petty fights with stars, and carte blanche with the company credit card. Annabel Nugent mourns a bygone era