Fiction
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Literature:
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn | National Book Awards
Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for…
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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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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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Suggested in the Stars by Yōko Tawada review – a linguistic odyssey | Fiction in translation
Reading Yōko Tawada is an immensely fun and occasionally bewildering experience. Suggested in the Stars, the second volume in the…
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Fire Exit by Morgan Talty review – secrets and lies in Maine | Fiction
Charles Lamosway, the lone wolf narrator of Morgan Talty’s debut, is uncompromising in his opinions, not least when he turns his…
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Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – a cut above | Fiction
Back in 2020, with the country in lockdown, the BBC commissioned updated versions of Alan Bennett’s consummate Talking Heads, originally…
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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery | Fiction
My favourite joke in Jonathan Coe’s new novel is hardly a side-splitter, more what someone of my acquaintance would label…
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Politics
Kremlin says reports that Trump spoke to Putin are ‘pure fiction’ | Russia-Ukraine war News
The Kremlin has denied reports that claimed the US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin where the…
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Politics
Kremlin says reports that Trump and Putin spoke in recent days are ‘pure fiction’
The Kremlin on Monday denied reports that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days, and…
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Literature:
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning | Fiction
There is something inescapably adolescent about the novels of Haruki Murakami. This is most obvious, perhaps, in his multimillion-selling Norwegian…
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