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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship by Anne de Courcy: a ‘racily enjoyable book’
The Week Recommends Nancy Cunard’s ‘roller-coaster life’ is the focus of this biography
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The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight: an ‘endlessly readable’ book
The Week Recommends Story explores psychic ‘precognition’ surrounding 1966 Aberfan disaster
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Dan Chaon's 6 favorite newly released books
feature The author recommends works by Anne Tyler, Emily St. John Mandel, and more
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The Palace Papers by Tina Brown: a ‘gloriously irreverent’ treat
The Week Recommends The narrative is studded with ‘delicious’ details that make it ‘disgustingly entertaining’
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'That's the one, that's where we were locked up'
opinion An excerpt from Nury Turkel's 'No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs'
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Book of the week: In Love by Amy Bloom
The Week Recommends A ‘sharply observed, often witty, eminently moving memoir’
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Super-Infinite: the Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
The Week Recommends This is a ‘thrilling reassessment of Donne’s oddly hinged career’
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Book of the week: An Accidental Icon by Norman Scott
The Week Recommends Scott’s memoirs tell the story of his disturbed upbringing and traumatic adult life
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Mai Al-Nakib recommends 6 books that play with memory and time
feature The award-winning author recommends works by Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and more
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The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman: a timely and depressing book
The Week Recommends Rachman analyses strategies used by Putin, Duterte and Bolsonaro to hold onto power
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Inside J.K. Rowling’s ‘gender wars’ lunch
Under the Radar Event attended by gender critical figures including Rosie Duffield and Maya Forstater
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The magnificent dance of Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System
opinion The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic returns with a brilliant memoir on race, criticism, and self
By Rhoda Feng Published
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The Car by Bryan Appleyard: an ‘entertainingly forthright history’
The Week Recommends Appleyard sets out to document a way of life that he believes is vanishing
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Ruby Bridges speaks out on book bans: 'Surely we are better than this'
Speed Read
By Brendan Morrow Published
Speed Read