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‘The fantasies are vivid, even lush’: the radical sexuality of Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden

Released 50 years ago, her tome of sexual fantasies didn’t simply give voice to female desire – it also exposed the lies upon which the patriarchy stands

The Guardian - UK

Murakami's first novel in 6 years to go on sale

The first novel by author Haruki Murakami in six years will go on sale on April 13, publisher Shinchosha Publishing Co. announced on its website on Wednesday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

What is the Great American Novel? Here’s a Chicago writer’s pitch for ‘Gatsby’

Read any good books lately?

Chicago Tribune

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10 new paperbacks to read this February

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Review: 'The Dream Builders,' by Oindrila Mukherjee

FICTION: In this debut novel, as a new city rises in northern India, the fortunes of its inhabitants are irrevocably altered.

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5 times Pamela Anderson's memoir left us wanting more — a lot more

"Love, Pamela," the new book by bombshell-slash-activist Pamela Anderson, covers a lifetime in 230-odd pages. It works out to about a little more than four pages for each year of her life — the chronological equivalent of a rock skipping over the surface of a deep, glacier-fed lake, like those…

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'The End of Drum-Time,' by Hanna Pylväinen

FICTION: A sweeping story of forbidden love and fugitive faith set in the majestic expanse of northern Scandinavia in the 1850s.

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Review: 'The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself,' by David Mura

NONFICTION: The stories white people tell themselves, David Mura notes, prevent them from seeing American reality.

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Review: 'Tomb of Sand,' by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell

FICTION: The winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize takes readers on an exhilarating journey back in time.

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Review: 'Forbidden Notebook' by Alba de Céspedes, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

FICTION: Alba de Céspedes chronicles a 1950s Italian housewife's entry into disturbing self-awareness by way of a whim to begin keeping a diary.

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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Becky by Sarah May and The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel.

The Independent UK

Gillian Anderson on why she is collecting sexual fantasies: ‘Women enjoy as rich an erotic life as men’

Nancy Friday’s bestseller, My Secret Garden, divulged women’s deepest desires in the 70s. Now the star of Sex Education is exploring where our imaginations are taking us today

The Guardian - UK

Mum's touching gesture to young son who died leaves Morrisons shopper in tears

A mother who lost her son at a young age left a hidden present for the next parents to use a baby changing area of a Morrisons store in Aldridge, West Midlands

Daily Mirror

Dumfriesshire poet's surprise Downing Street visit provides unforgettable Burns Night

Hugh McMillan read his work at the evening celebrating Scottish culture

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Salman Rushdie will not promote new novel Victory City after 2022 attack

Author is still recovering after being stabbed on stage in New York last year

The Guardian - US

I grew up evangelical. Terrifying rapture films scarred me for ever

Tales of wars, plagues and starvation left my friends and me fearing we’d be ‘left behind’. They haunt me to this day

The Independent UK

Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J

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Litty Committee: Pour Yrself An Iced Tea And Lap Up The Best New Books Out This Feb

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Salon

The climate nightmare of "The Deluge"

Stephen Markley explains how he wrote a dystopia that feels a little too real

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Charlotte Crosby reveals 'never seen before' cover of brand new book - Me, Myself and Mini Me

It's the third biography from the former Geordie Shore star, detailing her romance with partner Jake Ankers and 'the emotional and physical rollercoasters of pregnancy'.

Texas Observer

A Tree Grows in Texas

Dagoberto Gilb, creator of the premier Chicanx literary publication (named for a South Texas plant), had to leave the state to find a home.

The Guardian - UK

NoViolet Bulawayo and Margo Jefferson join ‘exciting’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

The Independent UK

North Dakota Republicans want to ban library books showing same sex relationships

If passed, librarians found violating the law could be imprisoned for 30 days and fined

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie will not promote new novel after attack

Author will not appear at launch events for Victory City, his first book since he lost the use of one eye and one hand after being stabbed, his agent has confirmed

Newsroom.co.nz

My annual New Year's quest to be 'a better person'

Self-help books have insights, but there's a lot of padding. Like life, these books are what you make them (you can have that one for free), says Jo Cribb.

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