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Your summer reading list: five of the best non‑fiction reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts

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By Magnus Marsden, Barry Langford, Dominic O'Key, Glenn Fosbraey, Matei Candea
| The Conversation Verified
The best summer companion is a good book. This year has already given us some truly brilliant ones, making it really hard to whittle down the best. These five non-fiction reads will also transport you all over the world – from 1960s India and Afghanistan to Ancient Greece and Hitler’s Germany – without ever having to leave home. Read more: Your summer fiction reading list: five of the best reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts 1.
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Your summer reading list: five of the best non-fiction reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts

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By Magnus Marsden, Barry Langford, Dominic O'Key, Glenn Fosbraey, Matei Candea
| Flipboard
17 hours ago Vast crowds loyal to the Islamic Republic have gathered in Tehran at a funeral ceremony for Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war. His second son and successor, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, was conspicuously …
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Moss & Freud: this anodyne portrait of their artist-muse friendship lacks dramatic bite

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By Barry Langford
| Inkl
Filmmakers have long found artistic creation both a compelling and a frustratingly elusive dramatic subject. In the right cinematic hands, artworks can be made to speak for themselves – think of the dazzling sequence of canvasses that concludes Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic of van Gogh, Lust For Life. In the wrong hands, the artist’s character and motives can all too readily lapse into cliché and banality.
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