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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux, review: Orwell, lothario

Paul Theroux’s 30th novel, about George Orwell’s years as a policeman in Burma, is both credible as history and enjoyable as fiction

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China has become like Orwell s 1984 – people live in fear

The Chinese journalist and author talks about the appalling Communist Party secrets revealed in her new book

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Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr on portraying Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in Genius: MLK/X

Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr on portraying Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in Genius: MLK/X - and Mufasa and Scar in The Lion King

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The Picnic by Matthew Longo, review: radical goulash

On August 19 1989 – between music, beer and goulash – the Iron Curtain was lifted for a few hours near the Austro-Hungarian border

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Maureen Sweeney, Irish postmistress who reported the 1944 storm that delayed D-Day – obituary

She did not know the data she sent from Europe’s most westerly weather station went straight to the Allies – even though Ireland was neutral

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