1. Changing My Mind by Julian Barnes review – a manifesto for open-mindedness

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   The author’s suite of essays, originally conceived for broadcast, don’t always translate well for the pageJulian Barnes’s latest book comprises five micro-essays, originally commissioned for a radio series a decade ago and repackaged here. The publisher spies&...

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1. Was his sister's death really suicide? A sibling confronts his own limited understanding

   LA Times » 2 weeks ago

   James Whitfield Thomson revisits his sister's death decades later, grappling with his own problematic views about marriage and infidelity following her supposed suicide...

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1. The simple life beckons in 'The Colony.' Enlightenment is not forthcoming

   LA Times » 2 weeks ago

   In her debut novel, Swedish pop star Annika Norlin spins a tale about a woman who, like Thoreau, seeks a simple life away from the distractions of her former existence...

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1. The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditionsWhen 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschwitz in March 1944, she was surprised to hear the strains of Dvořák and Sm...

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1. Gisèle Pelicot announces she will publish a memoir

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   The survivor of mass rape who became an international symbol of fortitude hopes ‘to convey a message of strength and courage’ in A Hymn to LifeA memoir by mass rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot is due to be published early next year.Pelicot became known inte...

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1. Krysten Ritter knows how to write a compelling antihero

   LA Times » 2 weeks ago

   With her second novel, 'Retreat,' actor Krysten Ritter delivers another thriller fronted by a gutsy, feisty female protagonist....

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1. ‘More are published than could ever succeed’: are there too many books?

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   While some say the rise of the self-publishing model is damaging the industry, others feel it gives authors a fairer dealThe complaint that there are too many books is not a new one. “My son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end,” reads one line in Eccl...

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1. ‘Every push forward is opposed by backward forces’: why the new Rebel Girls book is more needed than ever

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   Nine years on from the original book’s publication, feminism is under threat as never before, so an update serves as a ‘beacon of hope’Mary Earps is “drawn to people with a rebellious nature, people who aren’t afraid to say what they really think”.So it...

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1. David Szalay: ‘In a sense, all fiction is fan fiction’

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   The author on being inspired by Hemingway, Joyce’s jokes, and the diary he loves to dip intoMy earliest reading memoryThe first novel I remember reading was called My Side of the Mountain. I’m not sure how old I was. Maybe nine. My m...

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1. The Voyage Home by Pat Barker audiobook review – beware the grief of Clytemnestra

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   The story of Agamemnon’s fateful return to Mycenae is vividly captured in a retelling of The Iliad that gives Homer’s women a voiceThis is the last book in Pat Barker’s Women of Troy trilogy, in which The Iliad is reimagined from the perspective of the women Homer consign...

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