Books
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Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds
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A repressed art historian expands his horizons in a 90s-set novel that moves from campus satire to something queerer in every sense of the word
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All that page-turning can really work up a sweat
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Coffee company announces ‘difficult decision’ to end the prizes, sparking a chorus of disappointment across the books industry
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Book of the day All in My Head by Jessica Morris review – an attempt to make the incurable treatable
Faced with a devastating diagnosis, Morris responds by doing all she can to improve the odds of survival for her, and others
What to read
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From Ukrainian history to Putin’s kleptocracy and Gogol’s stories, author and former Russia correspondent Oliver Bullough chooses the best titles
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Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from brilliant non-fiction about sex and gender to acclaimed novels
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The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it
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A fascinating exploration of how beliefs are formed ends up asking whether it’s always right to want to win the argument
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This unusually lucid commentary on sex in the 21st-century, informed by the author’s work in a rape crisis centre, is daring and important
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A homeless woman makes a pilgrimage to return a lost engagement ring in this poignant novel
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The aftermath of abuse is met head-on by subtle and delicate skill in the Vietnamese-American poet’s debut collection
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The digital revolution is explored in this debut about a gifted coder’s journey from an Indian coconut plantation to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley
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Infused with magic and black humour, these fables of women affected by Russian aggression have accrued an unsettling timeliness
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A call to embrace wildness, a guide to shells, a tall tree tale, wishing candles, paper spirits, and a tough apology to make
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The novelists discuss using real life in fiction, email style, and the art of writing sex scenes
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The Albanian author and academic on what she misses most about her homeland and how a communist childhood steeped in lies sparked her interest in philosophy
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As a child star, the actor suffered trauma and neglect. Now an acclaimed director, she is confronting the ghosts of her past with a frank new book
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The author on pranking JM Coetzee, his huge debt to Labour, and his new book about the twilight of careers for artists, writers and sportsmen
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As an adaptation of her bestselling novel comes to screens, Sarah Perry describes the joys of being on set – and how the production restored her faith in storytelling
Regulars
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The crime writer on being fascinated by A Clockwork Orange, inspired by Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and taking comfort in Muriel Spark’s novel
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Human beings will always hurt one another. It’s how we respond that’s crucial, says the Archbishop of Canterbury
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Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut
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Mounting tensions with Russia, a global pandemic and a reckless scramble for nuclear energy: the echoes of 1957 are alarming – we would do well to heed them
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From the ad executive turned charcoal burner to the woman who built a new life in the woods, a new genre of books about radical reinventions is proving a runaway success
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Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean island
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