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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Sex Education star Gillian Anderson invites women to tell her their fantasies

The 54-year-old actress, who plays a sex therapist in the Netflix series, said she is trying to figure out if women are still the ‘silent sex’.

The Independent UK

Gillian Anderson wants you to write her letters about sex

Actor is inviting women to reveal their sexual fantasies to her for a new book

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‘The fantasies are vivid, even lush’: the radical sexuality of Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden

Released 50 years ago, her tome of sexual fantasies didn’t simply give voice to female desire – it also exposed the lies upon which the patriarchy stands

The Guardian - UK

Murakami's first novel in 6 years to go on sale

The first novel by author Haruki Murakami in six years will go on sale on April 13, publisher Shinchosha Publishing Co. announced on its website on Wednesday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

What is the Great American Novel? Here’s a Chicago writer’s pitch for ‘Gatsby’

Read any good books lately?

Chicago Tribune

10 new paperbacks to read this February

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Review: 'The End of Drum-Time,' by Hanna Pylväinen

FICTION: A sweeping story of forbidden love and fugitive faith set in the majestic expanse of northern Scandinavia in the 1850s.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself,' by David Mura

NONFICTION: The stories white people tell themselves, David Mura notes, prevent them from seeing American reality.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Forbidden Notebook' by Alba de Céspedes, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

FICTION: Alba de Céspedes chronicles a 1950s Italian housewife's entry into disturbing self-awareness by way of a whim to begin keeping a diary.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Tomb of Sand,' by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell

FICTION: The winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize takes readers on an exhilarating journey back in time.

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Review: 'The Dream Builders,' by Oindrila Mukherjee

FICTION: In this debut novel, as a new city rises in northern India, the fortunes of its inhabitants are irrevocably altered.

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5 times Pamela Anderson's memoir left us wanting more — a lot more

"Love, Pamela," the new book by bombshell-slash-activist Pamela Anderson, covers a lifetime in 230-odd pages. It works out to about a little more than four pages for each year of her life — the chronological equivalent of a rock skipping over the surface of a deep, glacier-fed lake, like those…

Los Angeles Times

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Becky by Sarah May and The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel.

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The Guardian - UK

Gillian Anderson on why she is collecting sexual fantasies: ‘Women enjoy as rich an erotic life as men’

Nancy Friday’s bestseller, My Secret Garden, divulged women’s deepest desires in the 70s. Now the star of Sex Education is exploring where our imaginations are taking us today

Daily Mirror

Mum's touching gesture to young son who died leaves Morrisons shopper in tears

A mother who lost her son at a young age left a hidden present for the next parents to use a baby changing area of a Morrisons store in Aldridge, West Midlands

Daily Record

Dumfriesshire poet's surprise Downing Street visit provides unforgettable Burns Night

Hugh McMillan read his work at the evening celebrating Scottish culture

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie will not promote new novel Victory City after 2022 attack

Author is still recovering after being stabbed on stage in New York last year

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The Guardian - US

I grew up evangelical. Terrifying rapture films scarred me for ever

Tales of wars, plagues and starvation left my friends and me fearing we’d be ‘left behind’. They haunt me to this day

The Independent UK

Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J

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Litty Committee: Pour Yrself An Iced Tea And Lap Up The Best New Books Out This Feb

Read it and weep (for yr bank account).

Salon

The climate nightmare of "The Deluge"

Stephen Markley explains how he wrote a dystopia that feels a little too real

Chronicle Live

Charlotte Crosby reveals 'never seen before' cover of brand new book - Me, Myself and Mini Me

It's the third biography from the former Geordie Shore star, detailing her romance with partner Jake Ankers and 'the emotional and physical rollercoasters of pregnancy'.

Texas Observer

A Tree Grows in Texas

Dagoberto Gilb, creator of the premier Chicanx literary publication (named for a South Texas plant), had to leave the state to find a home.

The Guardian - UK

NoViolet Bulawayo and Margo Jefferson join ‘exciting’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

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