Joseph Heller
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From Office Space to the Rakes’ 22 Grand Job, Guardian critics suggest culture to cope with the pressure, politics and crushing ennui of earning a living
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The joy of small things I used to think life was too short to read the same book twice. Not any more
I’m planning to reread the books I once loved, hoping they’ll reinvigorate me at a time when all our batteries are flashing low
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Blake Morrison on boomers, Chris Power on Gen X, Megan Nolan on millennials and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé on Gen Z … which books shaped your generation?
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The Matanuska-Susitna borough in Palmer restores modern classics by authors including F Scott Fitzgerald and Joseph Heller to curriculum after community action
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The three decades between The Handmaid’s Tale and Margaret Atwood’s much anticipated follow-up makes the wait for George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter seem brief
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The increasing absurdity of the Tory party’s march towards isolation would need Joseph Heller to do it justice
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Laughter has optimism embedded in it. It allows us to see that, while we are all human and we fail, we can change
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Julian Barnes, Margaret Drabble, Tessa Hadley, David Nicholls and others choose reading matter that would have been useful when young
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The man who ushered classics like Catch-22 into the world, Gottlieb has reason to brag. But in his new memoir Avid Reader he prefers to downplay the editor’s role
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Today is Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year – so we’re on the look-out for books to beat the winter blues. Here are some that warmed us over at the Books desk. But what are yours?
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Kanye West and Susan Sontag, Darth Vader and Hilary Mantel: after years of running a popular Tumblr mixing literature and pop culture, Maris Kreizman’s new book presents a carefully and provocatively selected mash of pop cultrature. Here are some extracts, with her commentaryGallery
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The Thick of It and Peep Show writer – and now novelist – chooses fiction from Tolstoy to Spike Milligan that finds black comedy amid the human tragedy of conflict
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Wondering which came first? Name songs about cause and effect, catch-22s, vicious circles, loops, paradoxes, or if you prefer, simple chickens or eggs, says Peter Kimpton
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