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‘Stan & Ollie’: a beautiful lie
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Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are perfectly cast in this affectionate biopic
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‘Stan & Ollie’: a beautiful lie
Culture
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are perfectly cast in this affectionate biopic
Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
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The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug
‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany
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This new novel is most striking in how it diverges from its predecessors
‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney
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This Booker Prize–longlisted examination of human nature is simply moving
Ceridwen Dovey’s ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’
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Reality flexes at the edges of Dovey’s second novel
AS Patrić’s ‘Atlantic Black’ and the challenges of historical fiction
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This ambitious second novel doesn’t quite live up to its Miles Franklin–winning predecessor
The treasures and pleasures of bibliophiles in ‘The Library’
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Stuart Kells celebrates book collections real and imagined, tangible and intangible
A new career in a new town, just like the old career in the old town
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With each season, ‘Better Call Saul’ feels more like a corrective to ‘Breaking Bad’