1. It's 2044 and pink fog is enveloping Los Angeles. Chaos ensues

   LA Times » 2 weeks ago

   Jonathan Parks-Ramage's latest novel is a queer Woolf tale about an L.A. baby shower that goes off the rails amid worsening fallout from climate change in 2044....

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1. The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters?

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama – without the infamous friendsThe rise and fall of the Mitford sisters is like one of those earthquakes w...

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1. ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writesTo read Rachel Clarke’s The...

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1. Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel...

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1. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o belonged to an age of prophets – we must honour his teaching

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   Along with other icons of African writing, Ngũgĩ taught generations how to decolonise literature, language and the mind• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literat...

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1. The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   Awakened by Laura Elliott; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab; Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang; Esperance by Adam Oyebanji; The Quiet by Barnaby Martin...

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1. Where to start with: Edmund White

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   After the news of White’s death, here is a guide to a foundational writer of gay lives and elder statesman of American queer literary fiction • Edmund White, novelist and gr...

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1. Twelve Post-War Tales by Graham Swift review – haunting visions from a Booker winner

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The author’s conceptual agility is on display in these short stories surveying the trauma of conflict and the challenges of survivalThere are several wars, not all of them military ones, in these deftly turned stories from Booker winner Graham Swift. With&nbs...

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1. Poem of the week: from Quatrains by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   The Guardian » 3 weeks ago

   These epigrammatic verses compress the great essayist’s philosophy with a beauty that echoes Keats and might have pleased WordsworthPoet ...

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1. Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle review – what exactly is ‘clairgustance’?

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   A chef can taste the favourite foods of the departed, in this debut mash-up of satire, ghost story and slushy romanceReading Aftertaste, I found myself wondering how readers visualised novels before the age of cinema. Now we all have a set of preformed mental ima...

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