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Britain’s Best Novelists
These are the top 20 novelists under 40 in Great Britain, according to Granta magazine.... MORE
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Dangerous Liaisons
The charming debauchery of Britain’s literati during the Blitz. MORE
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Bangladesh’s Midnight Children
Part novel, part memoir, Philip Hensher’s hybrid tells the story of his husband’s childhood during... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s treatise on Africa to the last novel of Roberto Bolaño. MORE
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Illicit Loves
Four new fall novels explore our desires and fears. By Jimmy So, Lucy Scholes and Nicholas Mancusi. MORE
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A Painting Opportunity
Pat Barker returns to a subject she has made her own: the First World War and its aftermath.... MORE
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J.K. Rowling’s Class War
Amidst accusations of snobbishness, Rowling finds herself in a British class war, reports Lucy... MORE
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Hello, Mrs. Dalloway
Emily Perkins’s fourth novel, ‘The Forrests,’ positions her as the heir to Virginia Woolf’s... MORE
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A Very Scandalous Diary
A middle-class wife’s scandalous diary of her supposed affair grabbed headlines and exploded... MORE
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Must-Read Fiction
Three daring new novels about secret societies, a modern-day Antigone set in Afghanistan, and an... MORE
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How to Age Gracefully
Ninety-four-year-old Diana Athill’s new ‘Letters to a Friend’ charts her newfound success as an... MORE
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Meet Boyd, William Boyd
The acclaimed British novelist is the next to bring James Bond to life, but he also has a new spy... MORE
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Blindness As a Way of Seeing
When writer Candia McWilliam lost her sight, she responded with a powerful memoir.... MORE
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Alan Bennett Gets Dirty
The famed playwright talks about his new short stories about, well, smut, Occupy Wall Street, the... MORE