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Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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‘She liked how the latticework would provide a touch of fantasy.’ Alice Munro in Granta 118: Exit Stategies.
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The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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The spoken word artist and podcaster’s hybrid of social history and rallying cry is heartfelt, if occasionally hectoring
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The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing
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The veteran music journalist’s personal study of the German film-maker wins £10,000 honour for the year’s best literary evocation of place
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Through writing about her sister Liliana’s murder 30 years ago, the author found a community of those whose female friends and family members had also been killed. Yet the authorities still fail to act
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May 8, 12:47 PM
The books reviewed are, among other books and authors discussed:
How to Think like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna. Grove, 296 pp., £9.99, March, 978 1 80471 002 9 The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. Routledge, 638 pp., £215, June 2023, 978 1 138 21275 6
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The Canadian writer’s works of short fiction illuminated seemingly ordinary lives.
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Jayne Anne Phillips exploded onto the American literary landscape with Black Tickets, a short story collection that remains so compellingly singular that it ought to function as a handbook for shor…
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The best historical novels of 2024, as shortlisted by the judges for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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To mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, three compelling books – including his unedited diaries – reveal the complexity of the author’s works and why ‘Kafkaesque’ is so reductive
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In the swinging scene of 1960s London, Rosamund is an anomaly: a socially liberal graduate student who is completely uninterested in sex. Her string of platonic boyfriends ends one night with an un…
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‘I read books as usual, nobody knew there was a thing the matter with me.’
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Listen to OurShelves with Stella Duffy from Ourshelves. How can we write a life unexpected?Author of seventeen novels, fourteen plays, theatre-maker, co-director of Fun Palaces and Stonewall writer of the year Stella Duffy OBE is an inspiration of hard-won wisdom and appetite for learning new things. She joins Lucy Scholes for a conversation about living without children in a pro-natalist society, how existentialism and yoga inform her writing and the time she met Patricia Highsmith - as well as why Bridgerton is brilliant.
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Author of seventeen novels, fourteen plays, theatre-maker, co-director of Fun Palaces and Stonewall writer of the year Stella Duffy OBE is an inspiration of hard-won wisdom and appetite for learning new things.
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Vibrant essays from the author of The Argonauts touch on art, inspiration, and many of the central dilemmas of our times
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Daphne du Maurier is a consummate storyteller, twisting our assumptions and emotions with complete control, and creating a sense of place and atmosphere so potent and visceral we almost believe that we, too, have travelled down that winding drive to Manderley… Whether you want to lose yourself in the shadows of an unreliable narrator, slip from the 60s to medieval Cornwall, fall for a defiant heroine or be haunted by an apocalyptic vision of nature – there’s a du Maurier for everyone.
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Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women
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The Nobel Literature Prize winner was best known for her mastery of short stories and depictions of womanhood in rural settings.
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Interview: Novelist and Film-Maker Miranda July on Emotional Honestly, Art-Making, and her New Novel
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The writer, filmmaker, and artist discusses motherhood, art-making, and her new novel All Fours.
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The new horror books out in May 2024 have a little bit of everything to dig its claws into your heart and chill you to the bone.
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The Irish novelist on navigating success shortly after a cancer diagnosis and a marriage breakdown, the renaissance in Irish writing, and how his ‘tragic worldview’ fits the times
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