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This acclaimed 2003 novel, recently translated into English for the first time, illuminates the country’s history with a tale bordering on magical realismA w […]

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The Oxford psychology professor traces the evolutionary advantages, or otherwise, of faithRobin Dunbar sets out to offer nothing less than “an overarching theory f […]

Recounting a summer spent tending her garden under threat of eviction, the writer’s exploration of the appeal of gardens ranges far and wideGardens knit us into t […]

Worzel Gummidge They’re back, doubling the number of episodes to six. A good three years work there! But seriously, these are three charming tales of scarecrow r […]

This chilling examination of how the growing popularity of autocrats and their aspirants could upend western liberal values is forceful and timelyRussia’s i […]

The German author on struggling to forgive his parents’ generation, postwar Germany’s adoption of liberalism and his fondness for 1920s fictionHarald Jähner’s After […]

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The Canadian author on how her pandemic novel became a lockdown phenomenon and inspired a hit TV seriesTwo years ago, Emily St John Mandel was promoting The Glass […]

Systems by Nathaniel Lee in Kaleidotrope The ecology is falling apart. Our narrator meets with his ex, who tells him about the frogs, and he suggests she writes a […]

The writer on Freudian dreams, Tom Sawyer, and what ER Braithwaite taught him about raceMy earliest reading memoryI can remember lying on my parents’ bed and r […]

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That was on the 2005 Anansi Boys trip, wasn’t it? Thank you for the sushi.

I suppose it means that UCSB was the first college or university to ask me to come and speak, because the late Professor Frank McConnell, of the UCSB English […]

I don’t know. I’m really not being coy. Somewhere in 2023 is definitely the way to bet. Beyond that, it’s up to when we finish making it and deliver it, and then […]