Books
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Context is crucial, but does that really mean we can leave free will out of the picture?
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The Three Women author once again explores female desire and sexual power dynamics in a collection of stories that often feel shockingly true
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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A radical vision for protecting users – but can it save us from our own worst impulses?
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A cycling tour of regions and delicacies, from hog’s pudding in Cornwall to honey in Ceredigion, is as funny as it is enlightening
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An affair drives the author’s highly charged exploration of love in fiction, from marriage to adultery, parenthood to friendship
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A journalist and psychotherapist explores what it means to be an adult in a world that often infantilises
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This Dutch novel takes aim at the depersonalising corrosiveness of the internet, but becomes laboured
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The financial crash and subsequent protests provide points of orientation in a surreal tale of love, loss and speculative reality
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Plot plays second fiddle to humanity’s primal urges in Moshfegh’s charged and outlandish latest novel set in a medieval fiefdom
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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 French-Algerian author on teenage fame, the parallels between her and Zinedine Zidane, and why she admires Bernardine Evaristo
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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
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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Context is crucial, but does that really mean we can leave free will out of the picture?
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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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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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