Books
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The poet, playwright and cultural impresario on supporting his family through poetry, his love for comic books and why ‘home’ is really his laptop, Meredith
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The Beautiful Ones, originally announced weeks before the singer’s death, will be released on 29 October
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A poem about final acts of love that spans playfulness, anger and delicate eroticism
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Ian McEwan is on top form in this counterfactual tale of love between man, woman… and robot
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A hymn to cathedrals underlines their fragility, and how their story is one of continual rebuilding and renewal
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Putin has convinced many Russians that he has raised their country from its knees. But for how much longer, ask these two books, by Mark Galeotti and by Samuel A Greene and Graeme B Robertson
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An engaging hero’s journey through the end of the Ottoman empire to the rise of Palestinian nationalism
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A fictional account of the murder of Sandra Rivett, nanny of Lord Lucan’s children
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Young women struggle with failure and disappointment in a dark yet funny collection
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A coked-up lord bonks a trafficked Albanian immigrant as the Fifty Shades of Grey author swaps BDSM for dispiritingly creepy power games
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Set in seedy modern Karachi, this conjures a lost city of jazz, cabarets and hard drinking Soviet delegates
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The writer, now 70, takes an probing look at artificial intelligence in his new book
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The Italian writer, translator and publisher talks about his latest book surveying the modern world
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Twice Booker longlisted, the Malaysian author is shining a light on immigration stories rarely told in fiction
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This week, the US president suggested rebranding the troubled aircraft – but this approach would once have been deemed fraudulent
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What to read
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The Tracy Beaker author on the book that changed her life and why she wishes she had written The Bell Jar
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From Taraji P Henson’s memoir to modern economic theory in Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?, the founder of the Everyday Sexism project shares her recommended reads
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Books of 2019
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The Goldfinch takes flight in cinemas, Robert Macfarlane goes underground and Margaret Atwood continues The Handmaid’s Tale … what to look forward to in the world of books
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The US and Soviet Union both believed people could control time, read minds and ignore pain. And, reveals The Men on Magic Carpets, their psychic experiments played out in the sporting arena
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Teacher and writer Jeffrey Boakye has encountered endless labels – all of which have informed his experience of being black and British today. Here, he unpicks their meanings
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She was labelled a man-hater, anti-sex and ugly. But she predicted both the ascent of Trump and #MeToo – and her unapologetic attitude is more relevant than ever
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