1. ‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’“I have had relationships with humans, but I’ve also loved a lot of people ...

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1. ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativityLast month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of its most thrilling acq...

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1. The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamicsWhat would writers do without problematic patriarchs? From King Lear to ...

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1. Tom Gauld’s Easter extract from Dan Brown’s new novel – cartoon

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

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1. Novelist Kiley Reid: ‘Consumption cannot fix racism’

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The American author on the follow-up to her bestselling debut Such a Fun Age, why she loves characters you want to shake, and reading 160 novels for the Booker prizeWhen Arizona-raised novelist ...

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1. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness

   The Guardian » 2 days ago

   An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventureTracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 30ft-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool. It’s irresistible: he plunges in. The water under the falls is turbulent, a...

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1. Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy

   The Guardian » 2 days ago

   There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but no one comes out of it wellMotherhood is a state of continuous loss that is meant to culminate when the dependent baby becomes an independent adult. Joan Didion survived thi...

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1. Tom Gauld on microdosing Jane Austen at the office – cartoon

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1. James Gandolfini (and Tony Soprano) would have hated this biography

   LA Times » 1 day ago

   The tension between James Gandolfini, the actor, and Tony Soprano, the character, was often hard for the star to live with, Jason Bailey writes in his biography on the 'Sopranos' actor....

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1. New independent press to focus on male writers

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’A writer and critic has launched a new independent press that will focus on publishing books by male w...

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