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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
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We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
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Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – a cut above
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From afternoon sherry to sex with the handyman in the lawnmower shed, Alan Bennett takes a wry look at lockdown life in a care home
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Join Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and other leaders to remember and honor the stories of great Americans in our new video series:
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V13 by Emmanuel Carrère review – gripping chronicle of the 2015 Paris attacks trial
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A chronicle of the largest criminal case in French history from a master of the genre
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‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner
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After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as possible from our planet
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Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize
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The British author’s novel about astronauts on the International Space Station was chosen unanimously as the winner, says judging chair Edmund de Waal
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Hachette employees protest and quit over launch of conservative imprint
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Basic Liberty, a publishing imprint launched in the wake of Trump’s election win, will be helmed by Thomas Spence, an editor associated with Project 2025 thinktank The Heritage Foundation
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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery
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Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight
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‘Henry VIII is a serial killer and abuser’: why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors?
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England has long adopted the version of events informed by the Victorians’ biases and neuroses. But what is behind the flood of 21st-century retellings, including the new TV series The Mirror and the...
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Alexander Garvie obituary
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Other lives: Glasgow University professor who specialised in the study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus
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Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize
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American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’
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Engaging in sport is a dynamic odyssey that sculpts your body and fortifies your spirit, cultivating an unyielding resolve to conquer life’s challenges with relentless passion and unwavering strength.
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Poem of the week: The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati
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An émigré player’s artistry sings through a London street, rising over many barriers
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We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a return to God… by way of the Brothers Grimm and The Lion King
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The Canadian psychologist’s zealous exegesis of the Bible as a moral rulebook for life is long-winded and out of touch
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Her Lotus Year by Paul French review – Wallis Simpson’s Shanghai story
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A new account of the months Simpson spent in China debunks the well-worn gossip about sexual adventures and opium addiction and even invites admiration for a ‘buccaneering’ woman
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning
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Murakami’s 15th novel retreads a form of magical realism that hasn’t evolved
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Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin and end
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In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human condition
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In brief: Who Owns Football?; The Caretaker; The Land in Winter
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A deep dive into football’s puppet masters; an evocative slice of Americana; and another tour de force from Pure author Andrew Miller
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Booker prize 2024: and the winner is. you, the reader
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The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn...
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Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing: ‘Working while grieving was consoling’
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The editor and author on completing the memoir by her late friend, Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, where she stands on the assisted dying bill and what she’s reading
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Remote islands free the imagination – but they also stir up fear
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Bestselling author Paula Hawkins set her new book on a fictional tidal island. Here she examines the power and appeal of islands
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