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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Authors, journalists and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

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Netflix Just Quietly Added The Biggest Sci-Fi Movie Of 2024

Get ready to return to the desert. 'Dune: Part II' is on Netflix. But can you watch it as a standalone movie? The answer may surprise you.

Inverse

I was lost in the cesspit of social media. Then Jane Austen showed me the way out

Why spend every evening fighting trolls on X when you could be working your way through the greats of literature? No more online rage, recriminations, doom-scrolling …

The Guardian - UK

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Can you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires

Mind-mangers from the Musk mafia

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Mozambique’s long struggle to build a nation – four novels that tell the story

Mozambique’s long history of nation-building is still unfinished. The country is still pursuing a cohesive national identity, stable institutions, and the economic foundations that would unify diverse groups. This is crucial to foster harmony and political stability.

The Conversation

Would you drop Of Mice and Men from the exam syllabus? The answer isn’t black and white

The book will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales because many find the racial slurs upsetting. That’s culture war fodder, but it shouldn’t be, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK

Harlan Coben says ‘quite a bit of tragedy’ in his 20s made him a better writer

Bestselling author and Netflix producer said extensive early experience of grief was ‘very cruel but effective teacher’

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Harlan Coben says tragedy of parents’ deaths helped him write better

The author recalled how he was in his 20s when his father died of a heart attack, at the age of 59, in 1988.

The Independent UK

American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman review – thoughts for the day

Unfolding over 24 hours, this captivating novel set inside the head of a woman consumed by her obsessions is as engrossing as it is unusual

The Guardian - UK

The best fonts for books

We’ve found the best fonts for book copy, recommended by designers and publishing industry insiders.

Creative Bloq

Julian Lennon: ‘I’m not part of the Beatles inner circle – I never have been’

The musician and photographer on escaping the shadow of his father, writing a memoir with a difference, and why his days of wallowing are over

The Guardian - UK

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist

The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance

The Guardian - UK

Nickel Boys review – sublime, immersive adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s haunting reform school novel

Shot largely from the point of view of its two main characters, RaMell Ross’s masterly film takes you to the wrenching heart of this American south tale of brutal 60s racism

The Guardian - UK

Crime is falling, but heists that make headlines imply otherwise

A burglary in London has triggered a press frenzy but the real story is that today such incidents are rare

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66 days to establish a journal: ‘I feel like I’m almost cheating death’

Faced with the prospect of forgetting beautiful moments of her one and only precious life, Cait Kelly resolved to start a diary. Will it be a faithful record of life’s rumble to read when she’s 75? Only if she can read her handwriting

The Guardian - UK

In life, David Lodge was surprisingly mirthless. Luckily, his wife was a hoot

A delightful but decidedly unfunny encounter with the author led to a train of thought about his comic books

The Guardian - UK

‘What have we here?’: how asking yourself a simple question can transform the way you think about your life

Forget generic self-help advice and focus instead on the unique set of hang-ups, character traits and personal circumstances that stop you living your best life

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Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips review – Windrush struggles

This elegaic novel tracks a West Indian man’s life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection

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NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #307 (Saturday, January 4 2025)

We help you find today's Strands answers with some useful hints and tips to win.

The Guardian - UK

David Lodge obituary

Booker prize-nominated author and critic who was known for his Catholic novels and satires on academic life

The Guardian - UK

‘His books animated academia for me’: how David Lodge inspired my campus novel

His trilogy captured my heart – and while Amis, Bradbury and Jacobson spoke to me, Lodge’s writing had an extra something, says Janice Hallett

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‘It’s largely thanks to him that the British comic novel remains in good health’: David Lodge remembered by Jonathan Coe

The author always had a warmth and wry wisdom to his characterisations and his eye for the absurd ensured he was one of the most truthful of postwar novelists

International Business Times

British Novelist David Lodge Dies Aged 89

British novelist David Lodge, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on Friday.

The Guardian - AU

My study is a bibliophile’s breakfast, the house is overrun. It’s time for the great book culling to begin

They are stacked three-deep in the shelves, which for a bookish person seems appropriate. The problem is there’s no order at all

The Guardian - UK

David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89

The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987

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