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What do we owe each other once we become different sorts of people?

Moral philosophy in On the Calculation of Volume

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Merry Christmas

High performers are late bloomers

A large new study in Science

The books I enjoyed most this year, 2025.

In no special order and not necessarily published recently.

Kiran Desai: catching a glimpse in the forest

The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia

Cat, Soutine, Feeling, Happiness, Conservative, Enigma

Some recent reading

John Carey: the Common Reader’s Professor

The affectionate obsession of a great critic

Cymbeline book club

SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time, 2 p.m. Eastern

Why we love Jane Austen more than ever after 250 years

She wrote about what really matters