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Till the Stars Come Down review – your invitation to the wedding of the year

Beth Steel’s new drama is dazzlingly performed and full of pain, joy and laughter in a deft production by Bijan Sheibani

The Guardian - UK

How women and younger UK workers are being hit by ‘underemployment’

With their employers limiting the hours they can work, many people have to take two jobs to make end meet

The Guardian - UK

You be the judge: should my partner’s son put the lid down before flushing the toilet?

Ray thinks leaving the lid up is unhygienic. David reckons it’s no big deal. It’s up (or down) to you to decide who’s right

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You be the judge: should my boyfriend save his post-gym shower for when he gets home?

He thinks showering at the gym is fine. She thinks it must be taken at home to keep the germs at bay. Whose argument doesn't wash?

The Guardian - UK

Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally?

The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?

The Guardian - UK

Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona

Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel. In a recent survey of critical responses, writer Rich Juzwiak noted that there is strikingly little consensus among reviewers:

The Conversation

Ottessa Moshfegh's year of death and internet clout

The My Year of Rest and Relaxation author on feeling used, becoming an internet symbol for detachment, and how her new book has lightened her load of dead bodies.

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18 brilliant books to add to your summer reading list

Choosing a reading list for the summer is a very serious matter. The Indy Culture team share the books we’ll be getting stuck into

The Independent UK

The best books to read this summer, from Ottessa Moshfegh to Gabrielle Zevin

Choosing a reading list for the summer is a very serious matter. The Indy Culture team share the books we’ll be getting stuck into

The Independent UK

‘My “sad girl” fans concern me’: Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado

The author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation talks to fellow US writer about memoir v fiction, depicting tyrants and the power of fairytales

The Guardian - UK

Harehills residents 'worried and scared' as woman's body found yards away from their homes

Residents have spoken about the 'terrible' circumstances as forensics tents are set up on their street

Leeds Live

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh review – a carnival of the grotesque

Plot plays second fiddle to humanity’s primal urges in Moshfegh’s charged and outlandish latest novel set in a medieval fiefdom

The Guardian - UK

In times of great need, people affected by disaster need great sensitivity

Marek and Adriana lost most of their possessions when their Brisbane home flooded. Like many people impacted by disasters, they are overwhelmed, exhausted and struggling to figure out what help they are in need of.

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