Newcomers to Sebald should begin with his novels. Everyone else will find this is Sebald with a difference. The going isn’t ...

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The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

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Asian markets and US futures have tumbled after Donald Trump announced a wave of tariffs on imports from around the world.