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Her latest novel, Vanishing World, is a surprisingly fearful book, one which conflates biological essentialism with what is good and…
ByThe best-selling genre in publishing combines magical worlds, steamy sex and unfortunate prose.
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ByCatholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.
ByAs with all the Nobel Prize-winning South Korean writer’s stories, We Do Not Part rejects escapism to reach into the…
ByThe greatness of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel lies in its details. But they are often overlooked.
ByThe Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
ByThis vivid story of class and family by the rediscovered Italian novelist was where Elena Ferrante “discovered what literature can…
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