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Massey grad's Booker novel: really good

A preview of the NZ-bound writer's novel

Newsroom.co.nz

The Guide #57: Is it just me, or is everything we watch getting more gory?

In this week’s newsletter: Martin McDonagh’s sad, funny Banshees of Inisherin has unexpected moments of true gruesomeness – just like every other hit these days

The Guardian - UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a hell of a ride

The characters in these absurdly funny stories are trapped by hyper-capitalism and their own foolishness, as Saunders investigates the prisons we make for ourselves

The Guardian - UK

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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Liberation Day by George Saunders and Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

The Independent UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a world of tricks and treats

The Lincoln in the Bardo author reinvents the possibilities of the short story in this wonderfully absurd return to the form

The Guardian - UK

George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

The Independent UK

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘There’s a Sri Lankan gallows humour… we’ve been through a lot of catastrophes’

The novelist on finding dark farce in his country’s civil war, his grunge band past, and the ‘lottery win’ of the Booker shortlist

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Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

Chicago Tribune

Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

Chicago Tribune

Māori Twitter, and other issues

Māori Twitter, "little birds picking up crumbs", and speckled kumara: a conversation between Hawkes Bay writer Shelley Burne-Field and author Colleen Maria Lenihan

Newsroom.co.nz

Spiderhead shows Netflix is getting less daring by the day

George Saunders’s dark, challenging sci-fi story has its edges sanded off in the streamer’s new Chris Hemsworth-starring adaptation. For a company that built its name shaking up an entire industry, Netflix is starting to seem decidedly risk-averse, writes Louis Chilton

The Independent UK

'Spiderhead' ending explained: How the Netflix movie changes the book

The ending of the new Netflix chiller 'Spiderhead' is a bit different from the George Saunders short story it's based on. Here's what it all means.

Inverse

Chris Hemsworth finds a rich groove in 'Spiderhead'

Director Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi prison thriller “Spiderhead" is in many wants the opposite of his “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The Independent UK

Spiderhead Netflix review: This compact sci-fi drama reveals the problem with 'Black Mirror'

Taking inspiration from a brilliant George Saunders story, 'Spiderhead,' starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett, is a sci-fi thriller with some smarts.

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Couple film 'very British' video for stranger after finding his phone in The Range

The video left people in stitches, after being uploaded to TikTok, where the man appealed to find the couple who had recorded the video on his phone before handing it in

The Guardian - UK

In brief: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; The Slow Road to Tehran; Drift – review

George Saunders leads a writing masterclass, Rebecca Lowe goes on a cycling adventure and Caryl Lewis makes a magical English-language fiction debut

The Guardian - US

Here’s how to do bedtime stories for your kids, according to two master storytellers

It’s easier to read from a book, or recycle stories you already know – but sometimes making up stories is better

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