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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
The author’s novella about two young women whose yearning for freedom comes at a price sometimes feels unconvincing and underpoweredWhile Tessa Hadley’s The Party began its life as a New Yorker short story, it seems that it wouldn...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A bona-fide queen of body horror delves into fears and illicit desires in this engrossing short-story debutDisgust and delight, it has been said, live in close proximity; in Eliza Clark’s debut collection, they share a home and a bed. These 11 stories revolve around food,...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Diagnosed with cancer in his 40s, the aid worker looks back on his life and offers advice on confronting deathYou’re diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 46. How do you react? In all likelihood with rage, grief and self-pity, especially if, like Simon Boas, you we...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A physics student calls on Angela Merkel to help him save the world in this one-sentence onslaught from a ‘master of the apocalypse’The modernists understood the paradox of the society from which they emerged. Europe, to them, was both new and old, traditional and progres...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Is there a book that you find particularly comforting to read? We would like to hear your recommendationsIs there a book that you find particularly comforting to read? We would like to hear your recommendations.Share your favourite comfort read below an...
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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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