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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The Handmaid’s Tale has risen more than 400 places on bestseller charts since Wednesday with a similar rush for copies of On Tyranny by Timothy SnyderBooks about democracy, dystopia, tyranny, feminism and far-right politics rapidly climbed bestseller charts in the wake of...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the worldDavid Graeber was a joyful, celebratory person. An enthusiast, voluble, on fire with the pos...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A hilarious account of film’s most stunning failures takes in hubris, stupidity and an assortment of disastrous animalsAt the corner of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards once stood a monument to one of the greatest movie flops of all time. A 300ft-high plasterboard Babylon,...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
The domestic details of postwar life are closely observed in this tale of two sisters over one weekend in BristolTessa Hadley’s novella has an alluring opening line: “The party was in full swing.” Evelyn is following her glamorous older sister Moira to an ostentatiously u...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Levy reflects on the creative women who have inspired her, in essays that range from the trivial to the profound‘It is a writing adventure to go in deep, then deeper, and then to play with surface so that we become experts at surface and depth,” writes Deborah Le...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Taking inspiration from family tradition, Luis Jaramillo's new novel, 'The Witches of El Paso,' tells the story of two women trying to escape challenging realities....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
This tricksy caper ranges from 1980s Cambridge to the rise and fall of Liz Truss with entertaining resultsWell, it worked for Richard Osman. Twenty-three-year-old Phyl, stuck in her parents’ house with an English degree and a zero-hours job in a sushi chain, is wondering ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The Booker-winning author on the the joys of Flann O’Brien, the magic of EL Doctorow, and having doubts about Richard DawkinsMy earliest reading memory
My mother taught me how to read. I was happy enough in school but at&am...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The Irish actor’s nuanced narration captures the conflicting emotions in Tóibín’s tale of infidelity, homecoming and the roads not takenAt the start of Long Island, a stranger appears at Eilis Fiorello’s front door and informs her that his wife is expecting a baby and he ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm As anyone who has tried pointing their phone’s camera at a menu in a foreign country lately will know...
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