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Some writers have peculiar ideas about getting away from it all. One of Mary Beard’s choices for our Summer Books feature is brave, even masochistic.

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Summer books 2024

Twenty-five TLS writers share their summer reading

Christopher’s kind

Isherwood’s characters grew out of real-life experience

Artistic licence

The relationship between ‘loveliness and lucre’

Can liberalism move the soul?

Giving new life to an under-appreciated part of John Rawls’s philosophy

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