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Craig Brown: 'The Diaries of Auberon Waugh. Such bad taste! Who could resist?'
Source: The GuardianThe winner of the Baillie Gifford prize on giving up on Balzac, Saki’s black humour, and why parody doesn’t last long The book I am currently reading ... Read More
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Meritocracy, Silicon Valley and Other Letters to the Editor
Source: NYTReaders respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.... Read More
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'I am a pessimistic optimist': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie answers authors' questions
Source: The GuardianNamed the ‘winner of winners’ of the Women’s prize, Bernardine Evaristo, Maggie O’Farrell and others ask the author about the #EndSars protests in Nig... Read More
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The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant review – learn from the stars
Source: The GuardianFrom Palaeolithic paintings to astrophysics … a glittering history takes in explorers, aliens and a world vanishing from view Twenty thousand years ag... Read More
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An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky review – it can't last
Source: The GuardianThis playful meditation on lost objects, from paintings to actors and islands, is a satisfying mix of history, imagination and detail What, asks this ... Read More
BREAKING
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Alison Lurie, Tart-Voiced Novelist of Manners, Dies at 94
Source: NYTMs. Lurie wrote about academics and intellectuals, straying spouses, snobs and artists, in novels of close observation and sharp prose.... Read More
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Miguel Algarín, Force Behind Nuyorican Cafe, Dies at 79
Source: NYTHis Lower East Side performance space has been an incubator for poets, playwrights and other artists, many of them not initially embraced by the mains... Read More
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Source: NYTSuggested reading from critics and editors at The Times.... Read More
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Review: Heartbreak is all in a day's work in a timely novel about a nurse on edge
Source: LA TimesEmma Glass, a working nurse, brings her daily struggles into the flawed but often powerfully illuminating second novel, "Rest and Be Thankful."... Read More
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For Jane Smiley in the year 2020, tough times call for furry tales
Source: LA TimesThe prolific novelist wrote "Perestroika in Paris," about a horse and a dog in France, because it was soothing to focus on "kindness and trying to get... Read More
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Dolly Parton Likes to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas
Source: NYT“Especially on a rainy day off … sitting in a comfy chair.”... Read More
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'Long Time Coming' Explores Birth, Uninterrupted History Of Systemic Racism In U.S.
Source: NPRMichael Eric Dyson's call to action is an invitation to reimagine law enforcement, education, workspaces and all other spaces in ways that eliminate r... Read More
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