Books
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Sarah T Roberts’s vital new study demonstrates how online content moderation is a global industry that operates on the back of human exploitation -
The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&A with translator Molly Ringwald
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Whether on Radio 4 or Amazon Audible, the appetite for classic works in audio form has never been greater -
Crushingly self-aware protagonists, the search for a place to call home, a longing for stability ... is the millennial generation too fragmented to be defined, asks Olivia Sudjic -
The novelist on why her new heroine is a ghost trapped at Peterborough station, writing a book aged 11, and what she’d say to Emily Brontë
Not the Booker prize
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After the public vote last week, our judges and book champions reveal their choices to complete the six-novel field
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This joyous personal history of British LGBTQ life leaves no stone unturned -
A fascinating insight into the discarded objects and lost things that wash up on the foreshore -
Prince, Steely Dan, Frank Sinatra and others are assessed with verve in a superb collection by the renowned critic Ian Penman
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A shopping list assumes symbolic power in this engaging if flawed tale -
Witty New York narratives and apocalyptic atmospheres make for a collection that rewards rereading -
This is the witty and moving companion novella to a TV series to be broadcast this autumn
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A vision on a Welsh hillside launches a bold meditation on nature and the possibility of spiritual regeneration -
This French prizewinner detailing a woman’s anonymous encounters provides a revolutionary perspective on sex -
The lives of two families – one black, one white – are interwoven across six turbulent decades
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Sparks fly, in both love and politics, in the latest volume of the groundbreaking series -
A 17-year-old girl explores her new freedom after leaving a religious sect in Lawrence’s richly empathetic third novel -
A wolf in sheep’s clothing, a BMXing princess, a German refugee’s journey and more
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The Pulitzer finalist’s latest book is an ‘immigrant’s manifesto’. He talks about creating a media storm and why he wants to get on Fox News -
Angie Kim’s debut Miracle Creek is a dissection of US healthcare and immigration, wrapped in a courtroom thriller. She talks about her son’s medical crisis, ‘goose fathers’ and Trump’s slurs -
Hailed as the Joan Didion of our times – informed, funny and fearless – the New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino is making sense of the world one essay at a time
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Rachel DeLoache Williams recalls her time with hoaxer Anna Sorokin in My Friend Anna and we rank the best true crime books -
Ernaux’s meticulously observed chronicles of French society are finally winning acclaim around the world. She talks about her relationship with her mother, feminism in France and being working-class -
The prizewinning Durham-born writer on his latest novel – the story of a young man’s friendship with an older woman
Summer books
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Time travel and double agents, psychedelic trips and seafaring adventures … our pick of the best fiction and non-fiction to read this summer
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Famously written in 100 days, John Steinbeck’s novel drew on years of other work and an agonised sense of duty to migrant farm workers
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This classical allegory of the poet’s role has intriguing modern resonance -
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Zadie Smith and Martin Amis will give you something interesting to contribute to any conversation
What to read
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The Booker longlisted author on the book that made her think differently about sex – and the one that made her faint with revulsion and awe -
With Kashmir under lockdown, Preti Taneja chooses books that explore the history of the most militarised region in the world -
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Writing alongside Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, West was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance. Diana Evans asks: why were her books overlooked for so long? -
If reading has given way in your life to social media and other distractions, it can be hard to pick it up again. But these tips could help -
The novelist recalls a job that combined powerful intimacy with jealous distance – and how its discontents fed her writing -
Vengeful, seductive, feminist, misogynist ... witches have appeared in many forms in literature. Now a new generation of novelists are falling under their spell
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