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The best translated fiction – review roundup

Fathers and Fugitives by SJ Naudé; Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet; A Man with No Title by Xavier Le Clerc; Command Performance by Jean Echenoz

The Guardian - UK

Feminist politics and investigative journalism combine in a moving story of a sister murdered

Liliana Rivera Garza first met Angel Gonzalez Ramos while she was still at high school in Toluca, Mexico, in 1984. Obsessive from the start, Angel spent months winning her over, then suddenly took up with an old girlfriend, breaking her heart.

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A Man With No Title by Xavier Le Clerc review – a poignant hymn to an Algerian father

A novelist’s reimagining of his late parent’s life is a potent memoir of marginalisation

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Women in translation month: a moving Algerian novel tracks the economic struggles of writers and publishers

French-Algerian publisher Edmond Charlot is the subject of the Algerian writer Kaouther Adimi’s third novel, and her first to be translated into English.

The Conversation

Is flirting dying? The apps appear to have swallowed the most delicate and delicious of human interactions

I was there for the coming of the apps and have lived long enough to now witness that the apps, it seems, have come for us

The Guardian - AU

The Guardian view on the power of brevity in the arts: an antidote to the blather of politics

Editorial: From the Marx Brothers to Albert Camus and Claire Keegan, concise storytelling can get to the heart of the matter

The Guardian - UK

Handwritten ‘draft’ of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000

Text appears to have been copied out and backdated by Camus in 1944, possibly as a way to raise funds during Nazi occupation

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The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

The Guardian - UK

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Guardian - UK

Pita and the 'Myth of Sisyphus'

'The Gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight."

Bangkok Post

‘A nuclear reactor of music’: the story of Simple Minds’ classic album Empires and Dance

Before their 80s megastardom, the band minted a strange vision of European culture and tension that still resonates. They – and superfan James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers – reflect on its power

The Guardian - UK

The great beauty of art is its absence of certainty

It can be surprising when things are not what they seem. Take books, for example.

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Friday essay: Stan Grant on how tyrants use the language of germ warfare – and COVID has enabled them

It is 2019. There is a virus lurking in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is warning that if it is not contained, it could infect the entire country. It could turn the country upside down. Tear at the social fabric. The CCP’s dream of harmony cannot withstand this. So…

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Why books could help empty France's prisons

Paris (AFP) - Deep in the vast La Sante prison in Paris, law student Morgane is discussing the classic novel "The Outsider" by Albert Camus with one of the prisoners.

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In a League of His Own

World Series-winning baseball manager Joe Maddon talks about the need for more African American players, how big data has undermined baseball and why rebellion can lead to an authentic life.

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the protests in France against Macron’s pension plans

The anger on the streets sparked by raising the retirement age to 64 is the latest manifestation of dissatisfaction with the presidency

Los Angeles Times

In Ukraine's war-shrouded capital, a play about a murderous dictator hits close to home

KYIV, Ukraine — In a black-walled theater at the heart of a darkened capital, the audience sits rapt as the plot unspools on a stark stage: A murderous dictator's calculated cruelty spirals out of control, and his madness grows in tandem with plots against him.

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A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen review – violent literary beginnings

A novella and short stories from the 1950s showcase Cohen’s fascinating self-fashioning, but also a taint of bitterness

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Life, death, intimacy and privilege: 4 works of COVID fiction – and what they say about us

Pandemics force us to face our mortality, prompting profound questions about life’s meaning. It is not surprising, therefore, that since the days of medieval plague outbreaks, infectious diseases have attracted the imagination of novelists. These stories operate as cautionary tales, holding humanity to account.

Inverse

15 years later, the boldest video game ending ever still holds up

The masterful closing moments of 'Persona 3' remains one of gaming's greatest achievements.

The Guardian - UK

Underwood Lane review – John Byrne’s devilish divine comedy hits the right notes

The Paisley-born playwright and artist pays tribute to hometown hero Gerry Rafferty in a coming-of-age musical amplified by 60s pop hits

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