1. Elizabeth Gilbert was addicted to love and sex. How 'Eat, Pray, Love' author learned to be OK solo

   LA Times » 1 week ago

   Following the death of her best friend turned romantic partner, Rayya Elias, 'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert realized she was addicted to love and learned how to be OK on her own....

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1. Domination by Alice Roberts review – a brilliant but cynical history of Christianity

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The humanist historian brings objects to life beautifully, but falters when it comes to people and their beliefsDomination tells the story of how a tiny local cult became one of the greatest cultural and political forces in history. Alice Roberts puts the case th...

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1. Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   As the hit thriller returns to our screens, its creator talks about false starts, surprise inspirations – and why he never looks inside Jackson Lamb’s headIt is hard to imagine anyone less like the slovenly, has-been MI5 agent Jackson Lamb than his creator, Mick Herron. “...

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1. Rumaan Alam: ‘Reading JD Salinger now is like running into that particular ex at a cafe’

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The US author on his early love of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the genius of Judy Blume, and finding perfection in Agatha Christie and Gustave FlaubertMy earliest reading memory I recall lying in the bath, age s...

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1. Bunny author Mona Awad: ‘I’m a dark-minded soul’

   The Guardian » 6 days ago

   The author’s blackly comic breakout novel won her awards and tattooed superfans. As she releases a follow-up, she talks about growing up as an outsider – and the best advice she received from Margaret AtwoodMona Awad was trying on a forest-green, deer-pa...

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1. Three Days in June by Anne Tyler audiobook review – a masterclass in marital disharmony

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   A mother reflects on the breakdown of her marriage as she attends her daughter’s wedding, in a novella that brilliantly depicts family dynamicsAt the start of Three Days in June, Gail Baines, a 61-year-old teacher, has a meeting with her school head, who informs her she i...

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1. From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Essays from Zadie Smith; Wiki founder Jimmy Wales on how to save the internet; a future-set novel by Ian McEwan; a new case for the Slow Horses - plus memoirs from Kamala Harris and Paul McCartney… all among this season’s highlights...

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1. The best recent poetry – review roundup

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   48Kg by Batool Abu Aklee; Paper Crown by Heather Christle; New Cemetery by Simon Armitage; Red Carpet by Steve Malmude, edited by Miles Champion48Kg by Batool Abu Akleen, translated by the poet, with Graham Liddel, Wiam El-Tamami...

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1. For 35 years, Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has provided a front-row seat to L.A.'s evolution

   LA Times » 1 week ago

   In the 17 mysteries in the series, Easy Rawlins has given readers a front-row seat to author Walter Mosley's vision of L.A.'s evolution. Easy navigates the social shifts in Mosley's latest book, 'Gray Dawn.'...

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1. The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

   The Guardian » 4 weeks ago

   A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay; Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman; The Final Vow by MW Craven; The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa; The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine...

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