Costa book awards: Susanna Clarke nominated for second novel after 16-year wait
Sixteen years after she printed her debut, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke has made the shortlist for the
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Beatles biography One Two Three Four wins Baillie Gifford prize
Craig Brown has received the Baillie Gifford prize, the UK’s prime award for nonfiction, for One Two Three Four: The
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Ralph Steadman: ‘We’re really living in a hell of a year, aren’t we?’
When the Welsh artist Ralph Steadman picks up the cellphone, he sounds a bit paranoid. “It’s Friday the 13th, you
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News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger review – an insider’s appeal to sceptics
“Mummy, what is that man for?” was the query famously requested by a younger lady at a rally addressed (at
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In praise of Jan Morris, by six fellow travel writers
Pico Iyer Jan Morris was a stunning historian who was consistently fascinated by the brand new. She might throw off
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He Who Must Not Be Named: why is Trump unnamed in so many books?
During the Trump period – which, all being effectively, will draw to an in depth in January – the novel
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It was hard not to laugh at Rudy Giuliani’s hair malfunction – but it’s time to stop equating looks with character | Emma Beddington
Weren’t the images of Rudy Giuliani’s hair malfunction final week great? I was transfixed by footage of him bug-eyed and
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Poem of the week: Blowing Smoke by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Blowing Smokefor the curve of dismounts o She lifts her head to reward the stars whitesmoke and my lips are
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OED says 2020 has too many potential words of the year to name just one
For the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary has chosen not to name a phrase of the year, describing 2020
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Dearly by Margaret Atwood review – the experience of a lifetime
Margaret Atwood doesn’t do nostalgia. This assortment of poems, her first in over 10 years, is a reckoning with the
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