Books
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This dystopian Silicon Valley sequel is witty, but the satire is underpowered
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A vivid account of a post-pandemic year a century ago when Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered, the BBC set up and James Joyce’s Ulysses derided
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Mary-Louise Parker voices straight-talking attorney Lacy Stoltz, investigating a judge’s involvement in revenge killings
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The American author’s memories of her parents and her early years as a writer are recalled in a collection of warm and affectionate eulogies
What to read
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Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some excellent new paperbacks, including the pop superstar’s fascinating autobiography, a history of the Louvre and a masterly poetry collection
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The model’s otherwise self-aware study of the exploitation of women’s bodies neglects to properly explore her own elaborate image-creation
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Trump’s former Russia adviser charts her journey from County Durham to DC, showing how populism thrives when communities are abandoned
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The Norwegian’s memoir about the trials of life with an incurable condition is a restrained and stunning meditation on what it means to be human
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Two champions of ‘rigorous science’ fail to provide a shred of evidence that Covid-19 was engineered and leaked from a lab
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Two teenagers pursue a stolen car in this folksy 50s-set novel from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow
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This autobiographical novel about a family’s flight from the war that tore Yugoslavia apart considers boyhood, family and endurance
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In this first collection, sweetly domestic stories are complicated when characters confront hidden wounds
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The comic novelist takes aim at the industry’s elitism, but his story of a farcical literary festival is dated – and overly focused on Will Self
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Wild island adventures, journeys in self-discovery, TS Eliot’s cat – plus the best new YA novels
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The author of On Tyranny on the lack of historical literacy, how local news has been replaced by Facebook, and why novels matter to him
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In The Promise, Galgut chronicles the decline of post-apartheid South Africa through four funerals over 40 years
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The novelist and essayist on the disturbing power of Lolita, her regard for John Cheever, and her aversion to simplistic arguments
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The comedian and author on his new book spoofing psychotherapy, his recipe for a long-lasting marriage and why it’s important to self-criticise
Regulars
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In many democracies the political chasm seems wider than ever. But emotion, not policies, may be what actually divides us
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Mary-Louise Parker voices straight-talking attorney Lacy Stoltz, investigating a judge’s involvement in revenge killings
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Rosamund Pike, who stars in Amazon Prime’s forthcoming take on Robert Jordan’s fantasy series, says his female characters are role models. Really?
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From her carefree 20s and countless affairs, to literary success and later-life bigotry and rancour, the author’s extraordinary diaries reveal a woman determined to chart her own course
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Poets have been constructing new work by selectively redacting others’ texts for decades, but Instagram and our political moment have spotlit this startling technique
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Waidner’s third novel follows a non-binary migrant who is arrested in London in what has been described as ‘Kafka’s The Trial written for the era of gaslighting’
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