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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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Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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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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It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?
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Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.
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Five Dials Archive Five Dials was a literary magazine published by Hamish Hamilton from 2008-2023. Founded by Craig Taylor and Simon Prosser, and named for a seedy, now-extinct part of London near modern-day Charing Cross, Five Dials proudly published literary voices as canny and irrepressible as the misfits who once populated the lost neighbourhood which was […]
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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 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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"To force a link between fiction and the real is an act of violence against the imagination."
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About the essayist: Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. She is a writer of novels, plays, short stories, and narrative essays, and her most recent book is Minor Detail, which was short-listed for the National Book Award in 2020 and in 2021 was nominated for the International Booker Prize. Shibli teaches and engages in academic research at universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University in Palestine.
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The Irish author on the follow-up to his bestselling novel, being blanked at the Oscars and the joys of giving up drinking
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Here are the books that were named winners and finalists in the categories of fiction, history, biography, memoir, poetry and general nonfiction.
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The following is a short story from Senaa Ahmad, featured in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021. Ahmad’s short fiction also appears in The Paris Review, Pushcart Prize XLVI, Best Canadian Stories 2021, and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Vol. 2. She was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction and received the 2019 Sunburst Award for Short Fiction. She's working on a short story collection.
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