The Floating World by Ben Eastham review – a compelling debut of art’s relation to money and power | Fiction

At the end of a night in a London pub, after last orders have been called, three friends are joking about what role they’d serve on a remote desert island, with no... Read more »

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story | AI (artificial intelligence)

The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza’s story... Read more »

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support | UK news

Sally Rooney has said she is being forced to withdraw her books from sale in the UK because of her support for the banned organisation Palestine Action. The Irish novelist, whose books... Read more »

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 14th

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Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus review – the zany follow-up to Lessons in Chemistry | Fiction

If you have been into a bookshop since 2022, or perhaps even just breathed in and out, you could not have failed to clock the phenomenon that was Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie... Read more »

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 13th

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Encountering the Past in “Music Against the Night”

John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel? Source link Read more »

Generation Maybe by Camilla Cavendish review – what’s really behind the fertility gap? | Society books

‘Don’t be weird about this,” representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughed into the camera as she prepared to jab a hormone-filled needle into her midsection, adding that she knew full well that, yes, people... Read more »

AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’ | Fiction

My earliest reading memoryLynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – where an assortment of differently shaped dogs go on a walk – wormed its way into my subconscious when I was very young. The... Read more »
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