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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A hapless young idealist sets sail for utopia, in this wild epic of colonial chaos in the late 18th-century AmericasIn that dimple of European history between the French Revolution and the coronation of Queen Victoria, there lived a not inconsiderable number of men – usua...
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The fascinating story of the ancient words that survive in the mouths of billions of speakers todayHow did the language you’re reading this in come to exist? The Indo-European family of languages covers most of Europe, the Iranian plateau, northern India and parts of Asia...
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An unsettlingly funny debut explores memories of a perilous birthday party, with dark echoes of Grimms’ fairytales and gothic fictionThis debut looks back at a summer birthday party in rural New England in the late 1980s. The narrator, never named, is perhaps seven years ...
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The findings from volumes kept in a Cistercian monastery in France shed new light on a robust medieval trade network that went well beyond local sourcing‘Hairy” medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are in fact made of sealskin, researc...
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A political prisoner lifts the lid on the hardships and fantasies of life in Iran’s most notorious jailThe Iranian political prisoner Sepideh Gholian’s account of life on the women’s wards in Bushehr and Evin prisons is a blindsiding blend of horrifying concrete detail, d...
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The Japanese-American author of unsettling new novel Audition talks about why fiction isn’t frivolous, family life with fellow writer Hari Kunzru, and how US authors are facing a critical momentSome years ago, Katie Kitamura came upon a headline that read something like: ...
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With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected waysWe live in an Odyssey time. The Greek epic about Odysseus’s tortuous, adventure-fil...
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The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy“What is your name? My name is Nobody, a name is nothing, like family, like childhood, I don’t believe in it, I don’t want it.” Con...
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This glorious biography of the whimsical, elusive French composer celebrates the depths of his seemingly sunny music and the impact he had on other formsMusic is extremely difficult to write about. First, because it has no plot, no figures, no images, and second, because ...
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