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Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone

The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Labour will need to do more than offer the 'Cakeism of Remainers'

On the same day Arsenal defeated Manchester United on penalties to win the 2005 FA Cup final, David Foster Wallace delivered perhaps the most celebrated commencement speech of modern times. Standing in front of graduating students at Kenyon College, Ohio, he opened with a joke:

Evening Standard

21 of the Greatest American novels that everyone should read

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

Evening Standard

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Anna Funder rescues George Orwell's wife Eileen from being 'cancelled by the patriarchy' – and reminds us he's a sexual predator

In the summer of 2017, Anna Funder found herself “at a moment of peak overload”. Juggling the competing demands of getting her children ready for the new school year, grocery shopping, home maintenance and caring for members of her extended family, Funder felt she had been spiritually drained by the…

The Conversation

Jason Segel finds his calm even amid the comically dark territory of 'Shrinking'

LOS ANGELES — Jason Segel is sitting at a table outside Jones Coffee on Mission Street in South Pasadena, a short walk from his home — too short, in fact, if he's hoping to make much of a dent in the 15,000 steps he needs to do today as part…

Los Angeles Times

Deviant obsessions: how David Lynch predicted our fragmented times

His work is freaky and frightening, yet today the Twin Peaks director cuts an almost cosy figure. As he turns 77 – a number of significance – we explore how real life caught up with his dark visions

The Guardian - UK

‘Could I understand the people who rushed into the Capitol?’: George Saunders on how stories teach empathy

The Booker-winning author on how fiction unites us as societies become ever more fractured

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Roger Federer Leaves Behind Distinct, Beautiful Mark on Tennis

The 20-time major winner has announced his retirement from professional tennis. He leaves behind a distinct, beautiful (of course) mark on the sport.

Sports Illustrated

Book of the Week: Half good Ross Taylor

A review of the Ross Taylor bestseller

Newsroom.co.nz

Pizza Hut, luxury luggage and Spitting Image: How Mikhail Gorbachev became an unlikely cultural icon

The last leader of the Soviet Union, who has died at 91, enjoyed an unusual second act as a spokesperson for Western brands. Kevin E G Perry looks back at how Mikhail Gorbachev came to embody the triumph of capitalism

The Independent UK

Meet the Bored Ape Yacht Club founders in their first video interview

Greg Solano and Wiley Aronow talk creating BAYC, arguing over David Foster Wallace, and the mom test.

Input

Serena Williams is living proof that going out on top is hugely overrated

There is something seductive about going out on top. Few things in sport are more shrouded in legend than the walk-off home run, the last-minute winner or the champion who retires undefeated. Always leave them wanting more, the thinking goes. Except, I’m almost certain this is horribly wrong.

Evening Standard

Michael Hiltzik: Chevron builds a 'newsroom' to tell stories it doesn't think an independent press will cover

Mother Nature, as the adage goes, must really abhor a vacuum. The evidence is how assiduously she has filled the ever-expanding vacuum in local and investigative news with fakery on a scale that gives the very concept of vacuums a bad name.

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