This month’s best paperbacks: Deborah Levy, David Nicholls and more
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‘AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like’: audiobook actors grapple with the rise of robot narrators
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Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell by Michael Haag review – a Mediterranean life
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Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review – endlessly inventive short stories
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Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read
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Murderland by Caroline Fraser review – what was behind the 1970s serial killer epidemic?
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Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood invites us to laugh at ourselves – I wanted my music to do the same | Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
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Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates ‘performative reading’
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June
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Poem of the week: Nest Box by Simon Armitage
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Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson review – a furious assault on NHS psychiatry
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Flashlight by Susan Choi review – big, bold and surprising
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Tom Gauld on AI at work – cartoon
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Should we give babies the right to vote?
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‘When I read my sister’s stories I think, that’s not what it was like!’: Esther Freud on the perils of writing about family
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At 21, Madison Griffiths dated her university tutor. It was legal, consensual – and a messy grey area
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Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure
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F1 the Movie to Squid Game: the week in rave reviews
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Thomas Neurath obituary
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Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’
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Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman review – secrets from the studio
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Beastly Britain by Karen R Jones review – how animals shaped British identity
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Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – a puzzle waiting to be decoded
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà review – makes most fiction feel timid
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Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever
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Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war
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Daisy Edgar-Jones to lead new big-screen take on Sense and Sensibility
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I’d lost my childhood love of reading – but rediscovered it when I set aside my iPhone | Adrian Chiles
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‘We think Princess Pearl is a feminist icon’: readers’ favourite Julia Donaldson books
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Clueless review – Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy are class acts in 90s Jane Austen parallel
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It Used to Be Witches by Ryan Gilbey review – an idiosyncratic guide to queer cinema
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The Original by Nell Stevens review – queering the Victorians
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New prize for translated poetry aims to tap into boom for international-language writing
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Dear heads of state: Donald Trump won’t love you back. He may be the worst boyfriend the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde
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Among Friends by Hal Ebbott review – how to blow up your life
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Witness in a Time of Turmoil by Ian Mayes review – behind the scenes at the Guardian
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Reconstruction review – teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania
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Is he still alive? The mystery of DB Cooper – the hijacker who disappeared
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Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller
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‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity
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Poem of the week: The Song of Arachnid by Gillian Allnutt
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Endling by Maria Reva review – a Ukrainian caper upended by war
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Tom Gauld on choosing the perfect books for a summer holiday – cartoon
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Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend
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Not My Type by E Jean Carroll review – memoir takes a hatchet to Trump
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How does an Obama speechwriter befriend a Joe Rogan fan? Via surfing
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My perfect holiday reading, by Bernardine Evaristo, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith and more
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Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now
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Shifty to 28 Years Later: the week in rave reviews
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‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley
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The best recent crime and thrillers – roundup
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Graham Norton: ‘The Bell Jar changed how I felt about books’
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‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet
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Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie review – the joy of the hatchet job
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Hark by Alice Vincent audiobook review – a search for silence
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Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82
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Carnegie medal for writing: Margaret McDonald named youngest ever winner
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How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life
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The 10 best audiobooks for summer
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The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain
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Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin review – privilege and race intersect in a fine debut
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Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced
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‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?
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Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year
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Sanctuary by Marina Warner review – the power of stories in an age of migration
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‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!
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Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska
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The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things
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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast
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