Culture | Cold comforts

Our books of the year

They were about corruption, revolutionaries, Glasgow in the 1980s, John Maynard Keynes and musical lives

Dec 3rd 2020

This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Cold comforts”

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