What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October
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The new folk horror: nature is coming to kill you!
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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?
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I had never really considered bad luck before. A brilliant memoir changed all that | Adrian Chiles
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Lower Than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch review – sex and the church
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The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – chilling tales for Halloween
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Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be – in pictures
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‘We built Brazil’: how descendants of enslaved Africans have helped shape the country
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Nobel and Pulitzer winners denounce ‘dangerous’ Israel cultural boycott
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‘Sex writing feels less cringe now’: are we entering a new era of erotic literature?
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Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces
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‘You can’t shoot climate change’: Richard Seymour on how far right exploits environmental crisis
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Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer review – a thrilling coda to an otherworldly trilogy
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Breakthrough by William Pao review – the drugs do work
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Small, local book festivals are still thriving | Letters
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Giuliani’s book is silent on $150m award for defamation but noisy on election lies
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Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake review – a writer’s place is not in the kitchen
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‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns
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Novelist and poet Paul Bailey dies at 87
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The big idea: how games can change your life
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October design news: a teeny tiny toffee, rag rugs and $1 watches
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Poem of the week: from At the Dimensional Border by Philip Fried
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The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – eerie and elegant gothic tales
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Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – broken, bedbound, but unbowed
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Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show
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The stoicism secret: how Ryan Holiday became a Silicon Valley guru
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Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind
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We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me by Elliot Mintz review – life as a confidant, fixer… and flunky
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‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women
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Humanist chaplain Greg Epstein: ‘Our bowed interactions with our phones look like worship’
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On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights
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Where punk meets Catholicism: Andrea Modica’s portraits of 1980s schoolgirls
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Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – the man who dared to defy Putin
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The big picture: Dolorès Marat’s Paris, city of intrigue
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Eliza Clark: ‘I don’t think we respect female writers’
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‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
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Novelist Jonathan Coe: ‘Liz Truss was very unimpressed to meet me’
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Tom Gauld on chilling out at Halloween – cartoon
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The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk review – hallucinogenic horrors
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John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in London’s Moorgate
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‘Say hello to my little pen’: 14 things we learned from Al Pacino’s memoir
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
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Lissa Evans: ‘Charlotte’s Web had me beside myself with rage and disbelief’
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The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Ideas … is a standalone Gandalf movie on its way?
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Farewell Gary Indiana: underground hero who chronicled the fallacies of erotic life
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Letters by Oliver Sacks review – science, sex and motorcycles
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Winner of Royal Society Trivedi science book prize assesses whether humans really could colonise Mars
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UK exhibition shows 15th-century women led armies and performed surgery
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Yulia Navalnaya, widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says she can ‘imagine Russia without Putin’
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David Nicholls heads shortlist for Wodehouse comic fiction prize
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Who should play Patrick Bateman in the new American Psycho?
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How one engineer beat restrictions on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia
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My Hummingbird Father by Pascale Petit review – a tale of childhood trauma takes flight
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My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr review – when a cat saves your life
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‘Art and music have always been like friends to me’: painter to the stars Jack Coulter
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Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway review – this continuation of le Carré is a treat
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‘Fascinating’: Tove Jansson’s Moomins notes to be published for first time
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Rare typescript of The Little Prince to go up for sale
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Mel Robbins Will Make You Do It
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‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine
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‘For too long literature has been defined by one set of people’: writing back to the empire and beyond
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Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac by Joan Smith review – debunking misogynist myths of ancient Rome
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After Baillie Gifford: are literary festivals on their last legs?
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She Speaks! by Harriet Walter review – new words for Shakespeare’s women
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Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify
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Psychedelic Outlaws by Joanna Kempner review – a compelling case for the use of magic mushrooms in pain relief
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The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing
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Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning
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‘I can do the same job as a man’: Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future
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Alexei Navalny memoir says The Wire inspired political career: ‘I’m a big fan’
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