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- 'The Maniac' by Benjamin Labatut is an inquiry into chaos, technological hubris, and modern physics’ transformative impact on the human condition
- Curzio Malaparte's 'The Volga Rises in Europe' is a sublimely lyrical study of the intersection of culture, technology and warfare on the Eastern front
- Political intrigue and human endurance inside a sealed society in Hugh Howey's 'Wool'
- How Paul Auster's 'City of Glass' uses the labyrinth of city life to explore grief and fragmented identity
- Dreams of peace, shadows of betrayal: John le Carré’s 'Call for the Dead' and the birth of George Smiley
- A prescient portrait of Putin's famous spin doctor's deeply cynical politics in Giuliano da Empoli's 'The Wizard of the Kremlin'