The trauma plot: how did culture get addicted to tragic backstories? | Diana Reid
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Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil and Hanif Kureishi join packed Hay festival lineup
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William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’
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The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a triumphant twist on the great American road novel
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Carrion Crow by Heather Parry review – a stomach-clenching contender for awards
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Long live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site
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Athol Fugard was a dreamer, listener and master storyteller – on stage and at home | Barney Norris
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The big idea: should we abolish art?
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The North Pole: The History of an Obsession by Erling Kagge review – an adventure that can’t be topped
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Is This Working? by Charlie Colenutt review – labours of love in unexpected places
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A Town Without Time by Gay Talese review – New York by an old master
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The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn review – murder most unsolvable
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Best seat in the house: writer Geoff Dyer on why sitting in a corner is so satisfying
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A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland review – a striking story of concealed love
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‘Will Trump give up the store?’ Edward Fishman on how US economic warfare works – and doesn’t
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The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?
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Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire
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Xiaolu Guo: ‘Write less, in order to write stronger’
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On my radar: Bobby Baker’s cultural highlights
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Noel Fitzpatrick: ‘We often put on the radio and TV for the animals’
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Go outside, ditch the phone, get humble: my top 10 Scandi life lessons after a decade in Denmark
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Scorpions by Tuppence Middleton review – living with OCD
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‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
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‘The definition of a classic’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go at 20
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Tom Gauld on finishing a book – cartoon
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‘What’s wrong with us?’ : Novelist Virginia Feito on our morbid obsession with true crime
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Twist by Colum McCann review – globalism and a voyage into danger
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‘I’m like the TV Lorraine - just more sweary’: at home with the queen of the small screen
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This month’s best paperbacks: Mick Herron, Armistead Maupin and more
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The best recent science fiction and fantasy – review roundup
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The Electric State review – Millie Bobby Brown’s bot war yarn is soulless digital content
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Branching out or nipped in the bud? Could Groot be getting a solo Marvel movie?
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Killing Time by Alan Bennett audiobook review – quietly subversive comedy
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Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa review – favours for furikake
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A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World by Tom Phillips review – apocalypse not
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Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize
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If you only read one book this year … make it this one!
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New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year
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Alive by Gabriel Weston review – a revelatory study of the body
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Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man
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Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn wins Nero book of the year prize
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Neil Gaiman asks US court to dismiss lawsuit alleging rape and sexual assault
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Peter Wolf on Faye Dunaway, David Lynch and Bob Dylan: ‘My mission was to be an observer’
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The Antidote by Karen Russell review – a magical realist Dust Bowl tale
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Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify
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World Book Day: top tips for last-minute costumes
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Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50
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Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published
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‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery
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‘The blue blues have never left us’: a new book examines the color’s spanning ties to Black culture
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Picture books for children – reviews
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Women’s prize for fiction reveals longlist ‘overflowing with compelling stories’
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne
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The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians’ delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February
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Giants of La Mancha review – kids cartoon sticks Don Quixote Jr into the modern world
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The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman
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Jimmy review – lyrical and impressionistic vision of James Baldwin in 1940s Paris
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Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution
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The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life
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Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams
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If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment
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All or Nothing review: Michael Wolff details Trump’s bilious re-election campaign
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‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?
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For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion | Kenan Malik
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Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – candid conversations with friends
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Colum McCann: ‘I like having my back against the wall’
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Salman Rushdie out, Dan Brown in: why it’s time to detoxify our middle-class bookshelves | Gareth Rubin
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On my radar: Richard Russell’s cultural highlights
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