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Xochitl Gonzalez and André Aciman — plus Nilanjana Roy on travel writing and James Lovegrove’s round-up of new science fiction
...That is a wonderfully calming number — once you know you can’t possibly read over two million books a year, it frees you up....
...In Roy’s telling, this new reality is the result of a complex cocktail of events and factors....
...a short walk away....
...Reading this fresh wave of histories feels like opening a door to a much richer sense of the past....
..., rumours, food, cigarettes and tea — and can take place anywhere: in a private home, a local tea shop, the park or a veranda.”...
...This first step by the Church Commissioners for England is a giant leap towards a brighter future for us all....
...them, reading is a community act....
...The review might have used Albert Camus’ L’Étranger (The Outsider) as a more useful analogy. I say this because the crises Roy describes as “novel” are perhaps not so novel after all....
...In 2021, the Boston Public Library was hit by a ransomware attack that shut down its systems for a week; the library took months to recover fully....
...On my travels, I’ve encountered him in unexpected ways and places: a fisherman who lives in a hut on Trivandrum beach shows me his favourite book, a Malayalam translation of The Castle, and a quiet professor...
...A new year often signals a fresh TBR (To Be Read) pile....
...That shocks me — at only 15, still a child!...
...Castro then suddenly collapses and dies during a speech. What at first seems accidental turns out to have been an assassination by a foreign power, using remote gene-editing technologies....
...What An Owl Knows is a treat....
...I have no problem with such a service. Roy Bland Penzance, Cornwall, UK...
...“It’s kind of ironic that the whole thing was a huge satire on entitlement, and yet people love Logan Roy,” he says, grinning. “And you go, ‘He’s not particularly loveable....
...Menéndez (Alfredo Castro), “the King of White Gold”....
...Roy Cooper, one of the few Democrats to lead a state that Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2020, said in an interview that public doubt expressed by some prominent party members was “one of the reasons why the...
...Washington has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba, which is just 153km from the US at the closest point, since the Caribbean island’s revolution led by the late Fidel Castro in the 1950s....
...Gita had no intention of being a writer — as the wife of a publisher, she felt safely inoculated against that ambition — but at a cocktail party, a guest grabbed her sari, pulled her into his group and said...
...As a mother tells her beloved autistic son in the story “On the Street Where You Live”, “Anything that could go wrong — a marriage, a child, a medical treatment, a painting, an affair, a tree — started with...
...Generative AI might be able to digest a million books and produce a million more....
...Among this year’s new titles, some, such as 38-year-old Devika Rege’s Quarterlife, offer a snapshot of a generation and a country in great flux; a few, such as 53-year-old KR Meera’s Assassin, translated...
...or learning a second language....
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