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  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Nilanjana Roy
    Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and me — was AI right to use our books?

    Many authors are discovering that their writing has been fed into the AI blender — and I am among them

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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Squash champs and spooks — the pick of new audio books

    From Chetna Maroo and Rose Tremain’s stories of growing pains to a trio of spy tales

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    Return of the Caesars; the Nobel Russian oil dynasty; Francis Spufford’s captivating 1920 crime thriller; how social media rewired capitalism; Sebastian Faulks goes sci-fi; the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s; a biography of maverick publisher George Weidenfeld; the Jewish experience in VIchy France — plus the best new thrillers

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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
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    Author Andrew Lipstein on ‘The Vegan’ and morality

    The Brooklyn-based writer talks to Lulu Smyth about morality, satire and his new novel

  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Review
    Booker Prize 2023: the shortlisted titles reviewed
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Cahokia Jazz — Francis Spufford’s thrilling leap into alternative history

    A murder mystery in a fictitious Midwestern city blends thriller tropes with a fresh reimagining of American society

  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The Postcard: mysterious message from a wartime past

    Anne Berest explores the Jewish experience of occupied France in a novel based on her own family’s story

  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The Seventh Son — Sebastian Faulks goes sci-fi

    This deft exploration of human genetics is strange, unsettling and one of the novelist’s best

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  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Siberian skulduggery and a Peston page-turner — the best new thrillers

    From the Rwandan genocide to death at the Bank of England, sinister stories of spies, politics and exile

    Book covers of Robert Peston’s The Crash, Josh Haven’s The Siberia Job and Ava Glass’s The Traitor
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Nilanjana Roy
    The novelists painting a human picture of Modi’s divided India

    Fiction goes where news falls short, bringing depth and nuance to the lives of people crudely labelled by politics or religion

    A Muslim girl rides a bicycle past an untethered bull on a street in northern India
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    ‘Vibrant and electric’ selection makes Booker prize shortlist

    Top award in original English-language fiction reflects ‘full range of lived experience’, says jury chair

  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    Review
    The Wolves of Eternity — Karl Ove Knausgaard casts an existential spell

    The second novel in a new series by the Norwegian master is epic and weighty — and repeatedly touched by death

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  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Review
    The Enchanters by James Ellroy — glamour, greed and Marilyn Monroe

    The laureate of American sleaze conjures a lost LA out of the film star’s death and a cast of real-life characters including JFK

  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Chicken-foot broth: a short story by Will Harris

    ‘Jim’s expression is curious, tortoise-like. He looks at you like a family member he hasn’t seen in a long time’

  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Booker Prize 2023: the shortlisted titles reviewed
    Prophet Song — Paul Lynch’s Dublin dystopia

    The depiction of tyranny and the traumatic fallout for its opponents in this Booker-longlisted novel is utterly believable

  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Review
    The Vaster Wilds — America’s founding myths reimagined

    Lauren Groff’s evocative novel challenges legends about the Puritans’ arrival in America — and offers a female-focused alternative

  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Review
    Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain — thwarted love and beyond

    A postwar coming-of-age story told with elegance and wit stands comparison with the best of Muriel Spark

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
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    Nobel-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘I had no other place to go’

    The writer on the pull of Zanzibar, his disquiet at Britain’s treatment of refugees — and the problem with italics

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  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Review
    A Dictator Calls — what did Stalin really say on the phone?

    Ismail Kadare digs deep into a fabled telephone conversation that may have sealed the fate of a dissident Russian poet

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Review
    The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House

    Filling in the ‘Slow Horses’ back-story, this sort-of prequel is part belly-laugh spy spoof, part elegiac state-of-the-nation satire

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  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Review
    Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li — brittle fractures of the heart

    The short stories in the writer’s third collection are quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching

  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Review
    Sleuths and suspense — best new crime fiction

    Stephen King gives an old love her own book, Christopher Fowler’s farewell, and much more

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  • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
    FT Magazine
    John Banville on his turn to crime writing

    ‘I shall continue to write novels, but I will never write another like The Singularities’, writes the Booker Prize winner

  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Review
    North Woods by Daniel Mason — tales from a haunted house

    Twelve stories of the life, love and tribulations of consecutive inhabitants of an isolated house in Massachusetts

  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Review
    The Fraud — Zadie Smith’s tremendous take on the historical novel

    Literary rivalry, a Victorian trial, slavery in Jamaica . . . the author effortlessly casts her own light on the past

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