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Time Being by Jude Cook review – a smart existential tale of midlife
A fatal mistake sparks this juicy melodrama, in which a philosophy professor navigates the guilt of being a survivor
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Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li review – a virtuosic interrogation of the power of art
What does it cost, to live your life in the hope of immortality? Li examines the gulf between talent and genius through...
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‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple
Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and l...
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‘It feels quite frightening’: readers rush to snap up Sally Rooney books as stocks dwindle amid Palestine Action ban
Booksellers have reported selling out of the Irish novelist’s works after it was announced that her books would be withd...
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‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis
The Turkish writer talks about her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government and overcoming depression...
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The Floating World by Ben Eastham review – a compelling debut of art’s relation to money and power
Following the death of his wife, a critic-teacher takes a job with an art-washing multinational, in a cinematic novel th...
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‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife
Her debut made her a global star. Now she has finally written a follow-up – and this time, it’s political. She talks abo...
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What we’re reading: China Miéville, Sebastian Barry, Derek Owusu and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in September
Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comment...
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Range by Dorthe Nors review – an astrophysicist at odds with reality
In the Danish writer’s latest novel, an eminent scientist withdraws to the countryside
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Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty review – Big Little Lies sequel shoots for high drama but fails to deliver
At 400-plus pages, Moriarty’s follow-up is too long and offers too little reward, with menopause, vaping teens and even...
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Celebrity, sex and motherhood misery: the 10 best books by Rachel Cusk … ranked!
From an abstract portrait of an actor who might be Natalie Portman to a groundbreaking work of autofiction, we rate the...
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Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’
The author of The Corrections talks about a new TV adaptation, the future of reading and why creating new work is ‘horri...