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In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak review – what Madame Bovary thought of Flaubert
This audacious portrait of the French author through the eyes of his women is Shafak’s love letter to literatu...
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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 su...
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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 geniu...
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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 wor...
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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...
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AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’
The poet and author on F Scott Fitzgerald’s perfect novel, losing faith in Ernest Hemingway – and the recent d...
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Partita By Barbara Kingsolver review – a quieter follow-up to Demon Copperhead
The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and...
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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 t...
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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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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...