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Olga Tokarczuk of Poland Wins Man Booker International Prize
The author shares the £50,000 prize for “Flights” with the novel’s translator, Jennifer Croft. The award is for works of fiction translated into English.
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Philip Roth: Novelist's Brilliance Was to Make America Uncomfortable
In his novels, Roth often thrived on bad taste – but he opened the public’s prurient mind and shaped the cultural conversation in America
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All Rights Reserved: a YA dystopia where every word is copyrighted
In Katsoulis's world, the super-rich have legitimized their wealth and power -- and the indentured slavery of nearly everyone else -- by claiming ownership over every expressive word that can be spoken and gesture that can be made.
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Bears Discover Fire
"I carried an axe and Wallace Jr. brought his .22, not because he wanted to kill a bear but because a boy likes to carry some kind of a gun." By Terry Bisson.
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Will Not Let Me Go
Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer’s. By Stephen Granade.
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Jane, Unlimited - Kristin Cashore
Five offbeat, inventive stories in one wild mansion. Read Common Sense Media's Jane, Unlimited review, age rating, and parents guide. Teen fiction, includes, mystery, fantasy, science fiction and some.
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Trust no one: how Le Carré's Little Drummer Girl predicted our dangerous world
Secret interrogations, elaborately staged deceptions, conspiracies and murder ... John le Carré’s murky spy thriller could not be more relevant. David Cornwell, or John le Carré, as we usually call him, must have been wincing as he viewed the CCTV stills of those two Russian visitors to Salisbury. He was surely shaking his head in dismay as he watched their later avowals of their touristic interest in Salisbury Cathedral on Russian TV.
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Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult books
This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?
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One of the Best Fantasy Novels Ever Is Nothing Like 'The Lord of the Rings'
In 'The Last Unicorn,' there are no maps, invented languages, or epic battles. But the 1968 tale has a timely message about the importance of reality over magic.
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Guide to the classics: The Water Margin, China's outlaw novel
In The Water Margin, first put to paper in the 14th century, local injustice is the rule, and defence against cruel local authority is a matter of vengeance, stratagem, and violence
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The 25 Greatest Science Fiction Tropes, Ranked
What qualities must a book have to be considered science fiction? Genre categories can be helpful in guiding us toward works that we might like, or just are in the mood to read, but those definitions can be slippery, and many of the very best books defy conventions and upend expectations.
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'I can't even look at the cover': the most disturbing books
From hiding from a copy of The Exorcist to being unnerved by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Iain Banks, here are your most alarming reading experiences
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How to write a fiction book cover blurb that can make your novel a best-seller
If you plan to self-publish your novel, the most important thing you will ever write is the cover blurb for your book. Here’s how to do it right (with examples from top authors of the 21st century).
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White Southerners Said “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Was Fake News
So its author published a “key” to what’s true in the novel
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In T.C. Boyle’s Trippy New Novel, Characters Turn On, Tune In and Drop Lots of Acid
As a kid growing up in southwestern Virginia, I lived down the street from a cloistered visionary named Greg, an older boy who read books and spoke in zealous declarations. One day of summer vacation when I was 9, Greg declared that we would build a monorail. This was an era of global oil shocks and nuclear meltdowns, and Greg was of the fervent belief that the monorail might save us all. It’s true that monorails at this point did not figure prominently into the rural imagination, and certainly not mine. But I knew there was one at Disney World and so I was, for a time, all in.
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Why Harry Potter and Paddington Bear are essential reading … for grown-ups
By day, she researches the poetry of John Donne as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. But in the evening, when Dr Katherine Rundell wants a bit of comfort, she reads Paddington. “As an adult, the thing I love about Paddington is that the structure Michael Bond has built into his books is one of hope. Things which appear to be negative turn out to be just cogs in the greater machine. I think Bond sees life as miraculous – and that’s in the structure of the book.”
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Poorly Researched Men’s Fiction
I had a whole gaggle of 100-point bucks in my sights, sleeping peacefully on their feet, like cows... By Evan Allgood.
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'A Clockwork Orange' Follow-Up Found in Burgess Archives
A literature professor at Manchester Metropolitan University recently unearthed a legendary manuscript: a 200-page work titled The Clockwork Condition by A Clockwork Orange’s Anthony Burgess. Don’t get too excited, Droog lovers. Colin Dwyer at NPR reports that Condition is not a sequel to the cult novel, but rather a meditation on the “condition of modern man” that was to be structured similarly to Dante’s Inferno. The manuscript was also something of a cash grab. After the release and success of Stanley Kubrick’s film version of book in 1971, a publisher reached out to Burgess...
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'It sickens me': Gillian Flynn slams Gone Girl theory in missing woman case
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn has said an estranged husband’s claim that his missing wife may have faked her disappearance in the manner of Flynn’s bestselling novel “absolutely sickens” her.
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The Best HP Lovecraft Books That'll Give You NIGHTMARES!
You won’t have to venture far into classic horror literature to hear the name Howard Phillips Lovecraft – or “Howie’, as some fans affectionately call him. Rightly so, since he’s among a small handful of authors credited for shaping the very landscape of modern horror. Today, new readers continue to seek out the best HP Lovecraft books, losing themselves amid his cosmic worlds.
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