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How to spot a fascist the Umberto Eco way | Letter

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Letter: Philip Steadman says Donald Trump fits most of the criteria cited by Eco in a 1995 essay…
How to spot a fascist the Umberto Eco way | Letter
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All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – This year’s ‘unconventional’ list also features the highest-ever number of independent publishers…
All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees
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When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley – thrilling leaps of imagination

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – An impressive collection of poems – largely set in industrial wastelands and musing on time and distance – makes the mundane magical…
When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley – thrilling leaps of imagination
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Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya; The South by Tash Aw review – love under the eye of the law

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Two contrasting but equally impressive Asia-set coming-of-age novels explore gay teenagers navigating their nascent sexuality against the backdrop of personal and political upheavals…
Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya; The South by Tash Aw review – love under the eye of the law
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Sydney writers’ festival chair resigns amid debate over Israel-Palestine programming

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Outgoing chair Kathy Shand says ‘freedom of expression cannot and should not be used as a justification to accept language and conversations that compromise the festival’…
Sydney writers’ festival chair resigns amid debate over Israel-Palestine programming
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2,000-year-old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals…
2,000-year-old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts
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Poem of the week: River Babble by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – A disabled poet laments the freedom he has lost in physical life but celebrates the liberty he retains in poetic imagination…
Poem of the week: River Babble by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
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In brief: My Favourite Mistake; Homeseeking; The Meteorites: Encounters With Outer Space and Deep Time – review

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Marian Keyes’s engaging tale of fresh starts and old flames; a kaleidoscopic family drama spanning six decades; and an absorbing study of ancient rocks from space…
In brief: My Favourite Mistake; Homeseeking; The Meteorites: Encounters With Outer Space and Deep Time – review
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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid…
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf
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‘It feels like a vindication’: Andrea Dworkin’s widower on the radical feminist’s rediscovery

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – John Stoltenberg, Dworkin’s partner for three decades, is thrilled by the reissue of three of her books as Penguin Modern Classics, and how a new generation is finding inspiration from her work…
‘It feels like a vindication’: Andrea Dworkin’s widower on the radical feminist’s rediscovery
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‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – In The Pardon, the bestselling legal author holds a master class on the controversial presidential power, focusing on Ford’s pardon of Nixon…
‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book
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The Violet Hour by James Cahill review – soapy and satisfying art-world yarn

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Artists, gallerists and collectors vie for power in a rollicking mystery that pokes fun while also examining desire and regret…
The Violet Hour by James Cahill review – soapy and satisfying art-world yarn
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Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld review – sharp stories about the pleasure and pain of nostalgia

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – In the American writer’s wry, understated second short story collection, the past comes back to jolt her largely middle-aged characters…
Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld review – sharp stories about the pleasure and pain of nostalgia
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Writer Percival Everett: ‘Deciding to write a book is like knowingly entering a bad marriage’

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – The American novelist on James, his Booker-shortlisted retelling of Huckleberry Finn, working with Steven Spielberg and the silliness of the Oscars…
Writer Percival Everett: ‘Deciding to write a book is like knowingly entering a bad marriage’
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The Kings Head by Kelly Frost review – jocular story of street-fighting sisters

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – The journalist’s debut novel about a London girl gang of the 1950s expertly toys with gender and explores young people’s place in the world…
The Kings Head by Kelly Frost review – jocular story of street-fighting sisters
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Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?…
Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield
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Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increases…
Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash
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One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human life…
One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence
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Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the Booker…
Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’
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‘The essential ingredient is openness’: Curtis Sittenfeld on the deep joy of midlife friendship

conseil.margueritedyouville.ca – Friendships become closer and more fulfilling as you get older argues the novelist, because by the time you reach middle age everyone has faced dramatic challenges, disappointments and sorrows – and being honest about them is a powerful point of bonding…
‘The essential ingredient is openness’: Curtis Sittenfeld on the deep joy of midlife friendship
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