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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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’

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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’

www.wakaticket.com – 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

www.wakaticket.com – 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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The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the eastern bloc during the cold war

www.wakaticket.com – The US agency sent the Guardian Weekly alongside 10m books including titles by Orwell and Solzhenitsyn by truck, yacht, balloon and in travellers’ luggage…
The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the eastern bloc during the cold war
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Those Passions: on art and politics by TJ Clark review – show me the Monet

www.wakaticket.com – The veteran art critic sets out to unsettle received ideas in this collection of 22 dazzling essays…
Those Passions: on art and politics by TJ Clark review – show me the Monet
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Man found guilty of attempted murder in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial

www.wakaticket.com – Jury convicts Hadi Matar, 27, charged with trying to kill author at literary gathering in New York state in 2022…
Man found guilty of attempted murder in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

www.wakaticket.com – A boy with his head in the clouds; a Kurdish refugee’s tale; helicopter heists, a dancer’s dreams, a mission to save Mars and more…
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
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A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown audiobook review – juicy insights

www.wakaticket.com – A wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining portrait not just of Queen Elizabeth II but of the psyche of her subjects…
A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown audiobook review – juicy insights
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Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’

www.wakaticket.com – The poet and novelist on having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for Plato…
Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’
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Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis review – witty debut about Islamic State brides

www.wakaticket.com – A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programme…
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis review – witty debut about Islamic State brides
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Writer quits Society of Authors over union’s ‘betrayal’ of Jerusalem bookshop raided by Israeli police

www.wakaticket.com – Matthew Teller, whose books include Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, said the society’s response to the event which saw two leading booksellers detained was ‘an abject failure’…
Writer quits Society of Authors over union’s ‘betrayal’ of Jerusalem bookshop raided by Israeli police
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