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Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado reviews "On Lighthouses," the new essay collection by Jazmina Barrera translated by Christina MacSweeney.
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This welcome reissue of the poet’s 1997 book about the ‘empress of the blues’ combines fact, personal memory and poetry to create an eloquent ‘herstory’...
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Previous winners Elizabeth Acevedo, Patrick Ness and Ruta Sepetys up for prestigious children’s book award, with loss a common theme...
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The second volume of Mosse’s wars of religion trilogy vividly depicts persecution and how politics can upturn ordinary lives...
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The Seventy-Five Pages, out next month, contains germinal versions of episodes developed in In Search of Lost Time and opens ‘the primitive Proustian crypt’<br>...
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The great literary love affair not only fed the visionary novel Orlando, but staked out new ground for women - and inspired the graphic novelist’s own hunt for the ideal relationship<br>...
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Shuggie Bain is heartbreaking, but never mawkish – and already a favourite with readers...
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The Australian-American writer’s short fiction is full of precisely observed studies of thwarted connection...
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It’s a cliche as old as cinema itself.But dismissing film-making as the weak sibling of the arts is often rooted in snobbery...
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From Thomas Hardy to Kristen Roupenian, literature offers a changing map of the treacherous terrain of sexual relationships<br>...
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A peculiar aspect of Joan Didion’s nonfiction is that a significant portion of it reads like fiction.Or, more specifically, it has the metaphorical power...
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Click and collect your book from the shop door, or perhaps have one shouted as you through a socially distanced megaphone ...
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Wintry fantasy, young detectives, the return of Lyra and Pan - plus poetry for everyone<br>...
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Two solid studies of white supremacy examine how its legacy continues to inform global institutions and our sense of self...
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Two hundred years after his early death, plays, readings and new poetry will honour the legacy of the much beloved author<br>...
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Satire and heartache collide in the Priestdaddy author’s funny portrait of a woman’s real and online life...
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Renee Hudson considers “To the River, We Are Migrants” by Ayendy Bonifacio.
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Scholar Edward Said longed to write novels, yet never succeeded, a new biography reveals...
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From Palaeolithic paintings to astrophysics … a glittering history takes in explorers, aliens and a world vanishing from view...
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Essays that test the boundaries of our relationships with animals and, above all, birds...
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Valzhyna Mort’s new book is part of the protest movement in Belarus. It captures, through language, the contours of dissent.
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Named the ‘winner of winners’ of the Women’s prize, Bernardine Evaristo, Maggie O’Farrell and others ask the author about the #EndSars protests in Nigeria, writing about Trump, and the culture that got her through 2020...
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Two books explore the indelible imprint of Yiddish on modern politics and popular culture.
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Sci-fi anthology stalled since 1974 will be produced by executor, screenwriter J Michael Straczynski, adding stories by today’s big-name SF writers...
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Two new memoirs about loss, grief, and the longing for communication.
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