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‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

As Neige Sinno’s critically acclaimed memoir about being sexually abused by her stepfather is published in English, she reveals how writing her story has helped set her free

The Guardian - UK

The best closing lines from books - from poignant final passages to chilling closing sentences

These brilliant closing lines will stay with you long after you put the book down

Woman & Home

William Boyd: ‘Ulysses is the novel to end all novels’

The ‘Gabriel’s Moon’ author on which of his 18 novels means the most to him, and the book he once loved obsessively

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Future lawyers learn key lessons from studying poetry in parks in this course

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Independent UK

No, Abrdn, you can’t bully a company

Brief letters: Silly company name | Gendered assumptions | Hard geezer’s drink | Spooning and forking

The Guardian - UK

‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will

The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed

The Guardian - UK

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24 of the best-selling novels of all time to read in 2024

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Evening Standard

From Nabokov to Miffy: Liu Ye on his cultural references

Artist Liu Ye tells us what inspires him, as his exhibition ‘Naive and Sentimental Painting’ is on show in London

Wallpaper

The Variations by Patrick Langley review – hearing the voices of the dead

There’s a Nabokovian intrigue to this thrilling tale of a composer and her grandson with the same mysterious gift

The Guardian - UK

‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories

The Guardian - UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Great Expectations to Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

Lolita: why this 'vivid, illicit' portrait of a pervert matters at a time of endless commodification of young girls

In an occasional series, our authors make the case for or against controversial books.

The Conversation

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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White Noise review – director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo's 'unadaptable' novel

Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different as William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical romp Barry Lyndon (1844) and…

The Conversation

'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

The Hindu

When freedoms and imagination are threatened, ‘read dangerously’

Why readers and writers will have to fight against a closing in of culture more than ever

The Guardian - US

Lolita at 60: Stanley Kubrick’s daring drama is a deft tightrope act

The first, and greatest, adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s troubling 1955 novel still possesses a strange and unnerving power

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