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‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money | Books
Richard Flanagan had only just got home from a trek through the wilderness when “the phone started going off like…
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Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital tops UK bestseller list | Books
Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital has rocketed to the top of the UK bestseller chart, becoming the first Booker novel to…
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Stay With Me by Hanne Ørstavik review – looking for love | Fiction in translation
Stay With Me is a brief novel, but the whole is overshadowed by fear. The narrator, a Norwegian novelist living…
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We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a culture warrior out of his depth | Jordan Peterson
It is not easy to review any book by Jordan Peterson, the prolific Canadian psychologist turned lifestyle sage. The temptation…
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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness | Fiction
Andrew Miller is a master of nuance, expert at exploring the various chambers of the human heart. In his Impac-winning debut,…
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Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize with ‘astonishing’ Question 7 | Books
Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the…
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HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models | Publishing
Publisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors.…
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Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87 | Books
Sandra Gilbert, the American poet and literary critic who co-authored the landmark second wave feminist text The Madwoman in the…
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Shuntaro Tanikawa, giant of Japanese poetry, dies aged 92 | Poetry
Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died…
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Blackbird Singing at Dusk by Wendy Pratt review – the great smells of the north and nature | Poetry
An ode to fish and chips, corn dollies and driving Ringtons tea vans, Wendy Pratt’s seventh poetry collection is a…
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