The Guardian » 2 days ago
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from an engrossing study of Chinese women to a fun, loveable novel ...
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The Guardian » 2 days ago
A New York librarian is discovered unconscious in a park with no memory, in a mystery that challenges consensual realityWe first meet Jane O in the consulting room of Henry Byrd, a New York psychiatrist. Jane, a 38-year-old librarian, is neat, quiet, outwardly unremarkabl...
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The Guardian » 2 days ago
The artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiographyIn 1966 a woman sat down at the Destruction in Art Symposium at London’s Africa Centre and invited people to cut off her clothes. It was an era when Yves Klein us...
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LA Times » 2 days ago
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 6, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction....
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LA Times » 1 day ago
Kevin Nguyen's second novel centers on a Vietnamese American family torn apart by internment camps targeting citizens with that ancestry...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
I won’t be showing off the results of the novel I wrote in a month, but the nonprofit’s community-backed challenge is worthwhile and should continueIt seems budding writers can make alternative plans for this coming November. Maybe take a holiday, learn to juggle, work on...
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The Guardian » 2 days ago
Once your kids are at university, what’s next for you? This compelling depiction of life at a crossroads is a male counterpart to Miranda July’s All FoursBen Markovits’s quietly excellent new novel begins with the most mundane of middle-class crises. The book’s narrator, ...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
A psychotherapist explores the nature of infidelity through a series of case studiesAffairs are hot stuff. The antics of cheating partners have been hooking audiences from the earliest days of storytelling to modern romcoms and hit podcasts by relationsh...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
A runaway orphan from coastal Kent is the protagonist in this tightly plotted reimagining of Herman Melville’s whaling classic“‘And now here I was, an accidental whaler, who knew nothing of whales, except the festive spout in the distance and the unreal immensity of a spe...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
The poet and writer returns to the May Day mountains in a gentle rumination on family and natureGo these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine fair, and you may find yourself asking: where are the humans? Title after title is devoted to clay and stone, t...
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