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By Dominic O’Key/The Conversation In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy marks the passing of her late mother by fathoming her on the page for the first time. “I wrote versions of her in my books”, Roy explains, “but I never wrote her.” Doing so is difficult, even painful for Roy because of who her mother was […]

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Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy – an uncompromising memoir told through a difficult parent-child relationship

Iran wants oil tariffs paid in Chinese yuan – is the power of the US petrodollar in decline?

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Why the world’s banks are so worried about Anthropic’s latest AI model

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Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. But should it have nuclear weapons itself?

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