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A Passage to India: how global pandemics shaped E.M. Forster’s final novel

E.M. Forster’s final novel and masterpiece, A Passage to India, celebrated its centenary in 2024. It tells the story of Adela Quested, who arrives in the city of Chandrapore with Mrs Moore, the mother of her fiancé, hoping to see “the real India”.

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Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art

Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to sift fact from fiction …

The Guardian - UK

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

Nicci French’s latest gem; an unsettling brainteaser from Japanese enigma Uketsu; the tensions that mar the maiden voyage of an airship; and a sojourn on a scary Scottish island

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12 comforting books to chase away the January blues

THE LIST: Battling a severe case of the January blues? These uplifting and inspiring books might just help to take the edge off, says Katie Inglis

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Third Thursday Murder Club book reaches platinum sales status for Richard Osman

The Last Devil To Die, the fourth book in the murder mystery series, was among five titles honoured at the annual Bestseller Awards.

Evening Standard

Richard Rathbone obituary

Other lives: Professor of African history at Soas who delighted in his membership of a local choir in Wales

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Mike Mignola says his new graphic novel is "entirely made of the stuff I love"

The Hellboy creator's new comic book, Bowling With Corpses, is steeped in myth and folklore.

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Harry Potter director delivers verdict on controversial TV series – and names first choice for Voldemort

Show is expected to start filming this summer

The Independent UK

We All Come Home Alive by Anna Beecher review – the pain of grief and joy of living

Beecher’s beautiful memoir, written partly in response to the death of her brother aged 25, describes in startling detail the highs and lows of existence

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’d had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

The American author’s fifth memoir is all about sex - with alfresco frolics in London and encounters in a bullring among the tamer anecdotes. At 85, he explains why he thought the book would never be published

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A Flag Carrier at Eagles-Rams Brought Viral A.J. Brown Book Onto Field With Him

The ultimate show of respect.

Sports Illustrated

The Loves of My Life by Edmund White – sex on the brain… and in the bathhouse

The American author’s anthology of his many physical encounters is a spiritual quest as much as a sensual one

The Guardian - UK

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett review – a moving treatise of family dynamics

The third book from the twice Pulitzer prize-nominated American author is a complex portrait of parallel lives on a par with the great Russian novels

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Quarterlife by Devika Rege review – an intimate epic set in Modi’s India

An astute debut novel follows the personal and political upheaval of three friends in a thinly fictionalised contemporary Mumbai

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‘His soulful best’: Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist writings to be published for the first time

Fifty years after his death, On the Road author’s spiritual reflections show him in a whole new light

The Guardian - US

All the President’s Money by James Comer review – incomplete, hypocritical and needs an editor

The Kentucky Republican enjoys taking his shots, putting words into Bob Woodward’s mouth and misspelling names

The Guardian - US

‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy

Money, Lies, and God exposes a Christian nationalist movement funded by the super-rich seeking to secure their wealth at the expense of others

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The best typography of the 1940s – our experts take a look back at the decade's most iconic fonts

Our experts explore the most iconic fonts of the 1940s.

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K Sello Duiker, a rock star of South African literature, died 20 years ago. How his work lives on

K. Sello Duiker was regarded as a “rock star” of South African literature. He was one of a group of budding black South African novelists of the late 1990s and early 2000s who emerged with democracy in 1994. They stirred up the country’s literary scene with their irreverent take on…

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In brief: Slow Train Coming; How to Sleep at Night; A Sign of Her Own – review

Behind the scenes on Dylan musical Girl from the North Country; a sharp tale of political and family strife; and a fine novel about sensory deprivation

The Guardian - UK

Despite the eulogies, the postwar order did little for peace – and fuelled the rise of populism

Don’t rush to mourn the end of a liberal international order that too often put order before liberalism

The Guardian - UK

Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis review – the gospel according to…

The first ever memoir by a living pope reveals a warm, emotionally intelligent man who loves football and ‘cutting-edge’ cinema – but skates over the more controversial parts of his career

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Carsten Höller’s new Book of Games: 336 playful pastimes for the bold and the bored

Artist Carsten Höller invites readers to step out of their comfort zone with a series of subversive games

The Guardian - UK

Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals

New collection of author’s diary entries provides tragic insight

The Guardian - UK

Caryl Phillips: ‘It was Britain that made me a writer’

The New York-based Kittitian-British author on why he set his new novel in the immigrant community of 1960s Notting Hill, the pitfalls of celebrity, and how he never misses a Leeds United match

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