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'The Friend': When the star of the movie is a very good boy

The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre

The Independent UK

Novelist Anne Enright wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize

Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, 2025’s recipients include novelist Sigrid Nunez, playwright Roy Williams and poet Anthony V Capildeo

The Guardian - UK

The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama

An adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s bestselling 2018 novel about a woman dealing with her friend’s suicide is tender and well-acted, if a little messy

The Guardian - US

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Dogs don’t block creativity like Karl Ove Knausgaard says – every writer needs one

Knausgaard once said that having a pet pooch gave him writer’s block but Nick Duerden has found his border terrier Missy to be a balm. He talks to other authors about the literary appeal of all creatures great and small

The Independent UK

Sigrid Nunez: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be Dr Seuss’

The American author on the greatness of Tolstoy, the joy of Jamaica Kincaid and her insatiable appetite for fairytales

The Guardian - UK

Day by Michael Cunningham; The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez review – tales from the Covid era

Two New York novels – one a melodrama of familial tension, the other musings from an unlucky housesitter – investigate life during the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

We’ve found the best books of 2024 to curl up with

Must-reads and page-turners chosen by a book-obsessed writer

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The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez review – animal magic in Manhattan

A parrot provides a vital connection to life when a woman moves into a penthouse apartment during the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

The best fiction books to read in 2024, from David Nicholls to Kiley Reid

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

The Independent UK

Fiction to look out for in 2024

The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

The Guardian - UK

Book Review: Solitary writer ruminates on grief, love and writing during pandemic's first spring

Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of “The Friend,” has written a pandemic novel called “The Vulnerables.”

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