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...world as capable of legal personhood. In India courts have declared the rivers Ganges and Yamuna ‘living entities’ recognised by the law while in New Zealand the government has identified a range of natural features as legal persons, including the Te Urewera National Park, the Whanganui River and Mount Taranaki. Similar developments have occurred in Bangladesh and a...

...world that reestablishes a clear-cut moral order and that, best of all, allows him to have multiple wives. In an occurrence that could only be described as a freak accident of timing, Submission was published on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo attack, with that magazine’s current issue sporting Michel Houellebecq on the cover. The novel went on to become a bestseller...