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A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration

www.wakaticket.com – The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order…
A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration
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Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread

www.wakaticket.com – A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world…
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread
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Poem of the week: That by Rebecca Watts

www.wakaticket.com – Repetition mounts to unnerving auditory effect as a trapped fly makes a life-or-death bid to escape…
Poem of the week: That by Rebecca Watts
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The Inherited Mind by James Longman review – a moving memoir of mental illness in the family

www.wakaticket.com – The TV reporter’s struggles with depression and the suicide of his father, whose own father killed himself, prompt this incisive, highly personal investigation…
The Inherited Mind by James Longman review – a moving memoir of mental illness in the family
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The Koran and the Flesh by Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed review – the trials of a gay Muslim

www.wakaticket.com – This courageous, melancholy memoir, about the author’s struggle to reconcile his faith with his sexuality, argues that homophobia is a cultural phenomenon, not a religious edict…
The Koran and the Flesh by Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed review – the trials of a gay Muslim
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The City Changes its Face by Eimear McBride review – romantic friction from the new bohemians

www.wakaticket.com – In a nuanced stand-alone sequel, the Irish novelist revisits the lovers from her second book – and finds two lives even more complicated, messy and human than before…
The City Changes its Face by Eimear McBride review – romantic friction from the new bohemians
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‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

www.wakaticket.com – Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed…
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
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Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – a reckless daughter’s aromatic youth

www.wakaticket.com – In the Yorkshire author’s first memoir, she recounts in tender, sometimes showy prose her difficult relationship with her complex mother and brushes with danger in her thrill-seeking years…
Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – a reckless daughter’s aromatic youth
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Lewis Carroll collection given to his Oxford college in surprise US donation

www.wakaticket.com – Exclusive: Christ Church college taken aback to receive hundreds of the author’s letters, photos and rare items…
Lewis Carroll collection given to his Oxford college in surprise US donation
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Those Passions by TJ Clark review – a timely study of the connection between art and politics

www.wakaticket.com – The British art historian’s essays demonstrate a wide erudition but suffer from his relentless scrutinising…
Those Passions by TJ Clark review – a timely study of the connection between art and politics
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The Book of George by Kate Greathead review – an absorbing portrait of millennial malaise

www.wakaticket.com – A restless modern male and his long-suffering girlfriend come of age against the historic events of the 21st century in the American writer’s witty second novel…
The Book of George by Kate Greathead review – an absorbing portrait of millennial malaise
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In brief: Queen James; The Paris Dancer; Melting Point – review

www.wakaticket.com – A stirring account of the queer first king of Britain; a vivid tale of life in second world war France; and an innovative family memoir about Jewish emigration to Texas…
In brief: Queen James; The Paris Dancer; Melting Point – review
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Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters

www.wakaticket.com – Helen Fielding, David Baddiel, Nicola Sturgeon and other cultural figures celebrate the great writer’s 250th birthday…
Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters
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Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci review – dust off those protest banners

www.wakaticket.com – A history of the campaigners who in the 1970s were viewed as cranks for demanding pay for domestic work is unintentionally comic at times but, 50 years on, their ideas no longer seem so radical…
Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci review – dust off those protest banners
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Ash Sarkar: ‘I never learned much of value from TV’

www.wakaticket.com – The leftwing political commentator on gen Z’s disillusionment with democracy, why she’s a ‘Mantel stan’ and the moral panic behind her first book…
Ash Sarkar: ‘I never learned much of value from TV’
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Judith Butler: ‘Swimming is the closest thing I have to a religion’

www.wakaticket.com – The philosopher, 68, tells Michael Segalov about kayaks capsizing, imitating trees, left-wing schisms and how instead of being stony-faced and serious, they like to clown around…
Judith Butler: ‘Swimming is the closest thing I have to a religion’
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‘I could have been an Islamic State bride’: the story behind this year’s buzziest comic debut

www.wakaticket.com – When Nussaibah Younis met IS brides, the peace consultant was struck by how easily she could have become one herself – sparking the idea for her darkly funny first novel…
‘I could have been an Islamic State bride’: the story behind this year’s buzziest comic debut
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‘It seemed wrong to write about normal life after that horrendous election’: US novelist Anne Tyler

www.wakaticket.com – At 83, The Accidental Tourist author discusses the secret to a good marriage, publishing her 25th book and why she can no longer keep politics out of her novels…
‘It seemed wrong to write about normal life after that horrendous election’: US novelist Anne Tyler
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The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst review – a terrific queer coming-of-age debut

www.wakaticket.com – The delusions and desires of a precocious young boy are closely observed as he approaches his senior school years…
The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst review – a terrific queer coming-of-age debut
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‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins

www.wakaticket.com – It’s been 11 years since she published a novel. In that time, the author has lost both parents, seen Trump become president twice – and finally returned to fiction after a bruising reaction to her comments on gender…
‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins
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